Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seas. The voyage from Hawaii to Samoa was broken by frequent maneuvers. The only incident of note took place when an officer, Lieutenant Harry J. Noble of the Medical Corps, aboard the destroyer Ludlow became ill. He diagnosed his case as appendicitis. The Ludlow turned on its course and ran back 30 miles to the hospital ship Relief (which had fallen out of formation because of machinery trouble). The water was too rough to launch one of the destroyer's boats, but an ambulance boat was sent from the Relief and the sick man lowered into it. Aboard...
...then they advised him to study in Europe. His first teacher died when he was still torturing Chopin's preludes. Max Rosen, famed violinist, told him he would never be a musician. When he was 15, he tried to write a song. It began decently in F, but ran off into G, where it hid behind the black keys, twiddling its fingers at Gershwin. Discouraged, he went to work as a song-plugger for a music publisher...
...opening night, it commenced at eight and ran till morning hours. The following night, he had chipped out an hour or more of the worst proceedings. The remainder was still pretty stupid. Mr. Carroll will juggle the piece for about a month in an effort to make it salable. By then it may be fair...
Through the match play, the veteran Mitchell lasted splendidly until he ran against spry young Archie Compston of Manchester in the lucrative final. From 5 down, Compston crept back to 2 down, 1 down, 1 up, and the gold...
...Porto Rican, got home from work, took umbrage at the music his sister was playing on the phonograph, tossed the phonograph out of the window, barked his shins on a table, threw the table after the phonograph, went from room to room performing feats. His sister ran for a policeman. Mr. Garcia knocked down the peaked bluecoat. Came another. Mr. Garcia bit him; he hit Mr. Garcia with a blackjack; Mr. Garcia dived from the window into the clutches of two more officers who lugged him, roaring, off to jail...