Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with three amiable young Chicagoans, and all five became intoxicated-the Texans most extraordinarily. That being the case, they decided to take an automobile ride. They piled into a light green automobile, drove north along Michigan Avenue, to the point where it merges into Lake Shore Drive. There they ran past the Drake Hotel, one of the most fashionable in Chicago, and turned east on Walton Place along the north side of the hotel. There they stopped and entered the great building evidently for an elite good time...
...flee through the now deserted mezzanine. "Texas," however, stopped to call on the house detective. The detective stuck a revolver out of his office door and fired, hitting the Cherokee in the shoulder. Then Texas joined the others in flight. His falling blood incarnadined the marble steps as he ran down. The other cowboy lost his way, ran into the kitchen and, after a little miscellaneous gunplay, was knocked on the head...
Presently a taxi drove through the mob. Out sprang two officers of the law, ran up the Cathedral steps, pounded A woman thrust her head from an upper casement, shrilled, withdrew. The mob laughed, having often during the past month seen the woman in the Bishop's house...
...reassuring element consisted in the fact that the second quarter earnings this year ran ahead of those for the first quarter- $39,882,992. After deduction of $14,062,540 for depreciation and sinking fund, and $4,672,677 for interest and premium on U. S. Steel bonds, a balance for dividends of $21,889,004 remained. After payment of $6,304,919 in preferred dividends, and $8,895,293 in common dividends, $6,688,792 remained to be added to surplus. For the last quarter, therefore, surplus available for common dividends amounted to $3.06 a share, compared with...
...sport in Italy-was to have been held at Turin to decide the championship of Northern Italy. Unfortunately, the contending teams from Genoa and Bologna and their supporters arrived simultaneously in the city and a riot was with difficulty prevented. The game was postponed for two days. Meantime, feeling ran high, higher, most high. Insults became deadly, deadlier, most deadly. Threats became bloody, bloodier, most bloody. The Prefect, alarmed, said there would be no game this year in Turin...