Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unlike my opponent, this is not the first time I ran for public office." "Here's one for you. This is warm." "There ain't going to be any report, because there ain't going to be any commission." "We have had in this country, in my opinion, about all we could stand of the 'spokesman' idea. . . ." The Democratic National Committee announced last week that 30,000 copies of the campaign speeches of Alfred Emanuel Smith, in book form, had been distributed in exchange for $125,000 in contributions to the $1,500,000 Democratic...
...taken an option on part of the bank's stock, refused to exercise the option when he saw the actual condition of the bank. Perhaps Dr. Giannini erred in allowing himself to become in any way associated with a sinking ship, but he was not the man who ran the vessel on the rocks...
...when Mr. Saunders was Piggly Wiggly's successful president, Wall Street operators started a bear movement in Piggly Wiggly stock. Angry, Mr. Saunders hastened from his native Memphis to Manhattan. They would sell Piggly short, would they? Well, he'd show them, and he did. He ran Piggly Wiggly stock up from 40 past 120, realized some millions of paper profits. Then, unfortunately, the Stock Exchange Governors decided that a corner had been established in Piggly Wiggly and took the stock off the board. With trading suspended, there was no market, no quotation on Mr. Saunders' stock...
...Doctor's Secret (Paramount) is Sir James M. Barrie's one-act play Half an Hour done as a talking-picture which sticks to the original script in all respects except that Barrie's play ran the time specified by its title whereas The Doctor's Secret runs for 60 minutes. The story of the woman who lives through that half-hour-30 minutes from the time she leaves her husband to run away with another man, until, her sweetheart having been killed in a street accident when he went out to get a taxi...
...publicity man and therefore a cynic, realized that she was "a charming woman without the faintest conception of her own limitations-damned dangerous." The other, an engineer and therefore an idealist, thought her "like a spearhead of beauty in a difficult world." Certainly she made it difficult for him: ran off with him in spite of, or because of, his wife; then left him in the lurch because, she discovered it was the cynic she "really loved." The idealist snatched this opportunity to make the final sacrifice for his spearhead of beauty, and set out upon a raging sea, heroic...