Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles delegation cheered the President so loudly that Laddie Boy, Presidential hound, ran to cover...
Witnesses told of a trip to the West Indies. The testimony was confused but there were apparently at least three occasions on which the Black Star ship was believed to be sinking. On one occasion there was an explosion and everybody "ran around in circles " until the engineer threatened to throw some of the passengers overboard. The next morning the passengers were awakened by the cry: "My God! Somebody's opened the sea cock." All hands were ordered to the pumps to save the ship...
...music, and yet the public remains interested. A phenomenal child can draw attention to subjects most neglected by the populace. There is the game of chess. It is impossible to draw any public interest in chess ordinarily. But when the infant prodigy appeared, little Sammie Reschewsky, the newspapers ran columns about him. This boy, too, is a case to be studied with an eye to the over-pushing of precocious tots. It was reported that in Germany, before he came to America, rich people had offered his parents a financial guarantee provided they would take him away from much hard...
...didn't stay down. He neither ran away nor went to the gutter. He lived through it? ostracism, poverty, his father's gradual collapse after finding his son to be a sinner, Bee's departure with Cecil for parts unknown. He came back?and was all ready to marry the respectable if somewhat withered Bessie Arnhalt?when Bee returned...
Charles Brookins, of Iowa, ran the 220-yard hurdles in 23 1/5 seconds, to break a record which has stood for a quarter of a century...