Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Generalissimo Degoutte, of the Franco-Belgian forces in the Ruhr, was being driven to his home at Charny, near Lyon, when the car ran up a steep bank, turned turtle, killed the chauffeur. The General escaped. On the same day M. Marcel Prevost, famed French author, was being driven near Montauban when a heavy truck ran into the automobile, smashed it badly, hurt no one. Thus did Providence spare two famed...
...That Anthony had had his life blighted by a caressing Cleopatra was no reason why Primo should follow suit, so thought the prudish ones. Others, in true Latin form, made light of the matter, dismissing it with an expressive shrug of the shoulders. The truth was, so the rumor ran, that Primo had fallen in love, which, in the best circles, is not considered orthodox for a married man. La Caoba, "auburn-haired dancing girl of surpassing beauty," is the reputed recipient of Primo's ardor...
During the last quadrennium, Methodist magazines ran up a deficit of $767,346. Among prominent publications with large losses...
...Oyster Bay, L. I., British and U. S. yachtsmen ran up the sails of their two quartets of 6-meter yachts, thrashed up and down Long Island Sound practicing for the International Races to be held there under the auspices of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club beginning Sept...
...fortnight ago the New York Herald-Tribune had a great "beat." The headline ran: "New Yorkers Drink Sumptuously on 17,000-Ton Floating Cafe at Anchor Fifteen Miles off Fire Island" (TIME, Aug. 25, NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Other newspapers echoed the story 24 hours later, being careful to credit the Herald-Tribune with its origin. Many readers of these other newspapers felt that the credit had been given in sincere admiration for so great a "beat,"-credit where credit...