Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strangest experiences that the crew of the Los Angeles ever had was when, last September, as the ship sailed low over Layton, N. J., a man ran out with a shotgun and fired a charge up into the big silvery bag. He accompanied his shot with dancing, gesticulations and lilliputian shouts. The lead pellets, though buckshot, tore only small holes in the ship's fabric. But they might have struck machinery, caused disaster. Had the Los Angeles been inflated with inflammable hydrogen instead of inert helium, she might have blown up. And anyway, it is not proper to shoot...
...Helen Johnson sued her Scotch husband, Arthur, for divorce. Claimed she: He would not let her use a vacuum cleaner lest it wear out the rugs; he would wake before the alarm clock's orison to save the spring; on July 4, he bought the children no firecrackers but ran about the house shouting "BOOM...
...Conservatives," ran the legend, "Lloyd George won't beat us-Ramsay won't defeat us-but Apathy might! VOTE...
...Proctor went into partnership with the late Charles Frohman, and from this agreement resulted the famed old Charles Frohman Stock Company. In 1893, the Proctor 23rd Street Theatre (then up town) inaugurated continuous (10 a. m.-11 p. m.) performances. Before entering the vaudeville business, Mr. Proctor ran an unsuccessful Ten-Twenty-Thirty melodrama chain, and before that toured Europe as a circus acrobat. He was born in Dexter, Me., and began his career in the extremely unhistrionic capacity of errand boy at Boston's R. H. White...
...Connell '30 nosed out Marsters for second in the low hurdles, while G. W. Smith '29 came from sixth to third in the one mile run. On the field T. H. Alcock '29 achived second in the hammer throw while T. G. Moore '29 and V. M. Harding '31 ran away with the javelin event...