Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Delegates to the Prussian Diet argued hotly over a local bill last week. Came a, terrific crash overhead, a greenish yellow streak of flame ran down the wall behind the president's chair. The lightning, which had struck the roof, injured...
...Minneapolis Thorwald Johnson and Owen Haughland kept the Cessna Miss Minneapolis up for 150 hrs., when a broken valve forced them down. At Roosevelt Field, L. I., Viola Gentry, flying cashier, and Jack Ashcraft, went up in the Cabinair biplane The Answer, after only one practice flight. They unexpectedly ran out of gas after 10 hrs., tried to land through a mist, crashed. Ashcraft was killed, Miss Gentry badly hurt. Her first and continuous cries after the smash were for "Bill." "Bill" was William Ulbrich, at whose mother's Mineola home she lived. He, at the time, was just overhead...
...night a screaming woman recognized Joe on his dance floor as one of the principals in the roadhouse job. They arrested Joe. Without much third-degree, he turned State's evidence. Soon the "bulls" got Otero, Rico's faithful bodyguard, who stayed behind to shoot it out while Rico ran. And soon after that a detective got Rico in a corner. There was a long spurt of flame. Rico felt it in the chest. He fell. "Mother of God," he cried, a bit theatrically, "is this the end of Rico...
...Traffic Department. First arrivals from afar in the flooded districts were airmen carrying Fleischmann yeast. Nor is Fleischmann service limited only to yeast deliveries. When a Fleischmann baker died suddenly, leaving a distracted widow with several small children, one Fleischmann man took charge of the funeral, another Fleischmann man ran the bakery until the widow was able to operate it again...
...Ascot last week, eyed by Edward of Wales, the Duke & Duchess of York and several thousand other spectators in flowered dresses and grey toppers, Reigh Count, winner of last year's Kentucky Derby, and of this year's Coronation stakes in England, ran eagerly and fast but only came in second in England's great and fashionable Ascot Derby. The winner by two lengths was Invershin, a powerful seven-year-old owned by British Sportsman Reid Walker. Owner Walker, not as surprised as he might have 'been, because Invershin won the same race last year, purred...