Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warsaw, Poland's capital city, was given a dinner in honor of Marshal Pilsudski, first ex-President of the Republic. The dinner commenced auspiciously. Everyone behaved in a gentlemanly manner. Later, the flowing cup ran over. With it effervesced the courage of the assembled guests. From rollicking laughter and sounds of "Have you heard this one?" the attention of the party was directed to serious, biting and calumnious speeches. It was Marshal Pilsudski's turn to speak. He said many unpleasant things about his critics. Some he called "crooks." Then with one mighty roar: "The insults that have...
Uproar broke out among the delegates. The three in the gallery started hastily to depart. A hatless crowd of delegates ran after them. Cooler heads tried to calm them, but a pugnacious Irishman knocked down Manley. Someone tumbled McCarthy over a hedge, and for a moment there was a general mêlée. Then newspaper men interfered and the radicals ran for safety...
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...acoustics were bad; the orchestra sounded overloud and seemed to be almost a veil between the singers and the audience. Furthermore, it was almost as bad as trying to make your way to a Yale-Harvard football match to get to the entrance of the house. The street cars ran ceaselessly past the front, and there was usually a great jam of automobiles, pedestrians. And once you had got in it was equally difficult to get away...
Stuyvesant High School, Manhattan, tells a tale of Frank Hussey's refusals to appear at school following the day he ran the hundred yard dash in 9 3/5 seconds, tying the world's record. Hussey was diffident of publicity. He even dodged out of an invitation to be patronized for his accomplishment in City Hall by the Mayor of New York...