Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After he got his journeyman's certificate, the Ellis shopboy set out to see what other railroad shops, and the western world to which the railroads ran, were like. He got as far as Salt Lake City, where he took a job in the Rio Grande & Western roundhouse. He got married and began studying in the International Correspondence School. Soon came his first big "break," the blown-out cylinder head, now famed among Chrysler admirers, which he and a helper mended in time to send the mail-train out on schedule...
...McGinn was carrying the air mail from Cleveland to Chicago. He ran into a snowstorm and a 50 m. p. h. gale near Huron, Ohio, lost control of his plane. It fell on an apple tree, caromed into a barn owned by an undertaker. Pilot McGinn was decapitated as he was thrown from the cockpit. The barn, the plane and the mail bags burned quickly in the cold, whistling night...
Born Borach, daughter of a French Jew who ran saloons in Newark, Brooklyn and Manhattan, Fannie Brice was romantic partly because she was homely and awkward. When she got a job in a department store she pretended she was starving and her father was blind; when the girls and the floor superintendent gave her presents and money, she laughed and said that she was only fooling. At Keeney's Vaudeville House in Brooklyn when she was 13 she won $10 on amateur night singing "When You Know You're Not Forgotten by the Girl...
...Stories. When Victoria's granddaughter, German Alix of Hesse, came to her new Russian home as affianced bride of the Cesarevitch, the emotions of an emotional people ran riot, mingling curiosity and doubt with vague glamorous expectations and pity. Of Anglo-German lineage-would she sympathize with Slavic-Byzantine fancies and foibles? Profoundly religious, she had resisted a change of faith, then, suddenly veered, passionately to avow Greek orthodoxy-was it for love of the Cesarevitch, or for ulterior reasons? Considering the influences of liberalism, political if not moral, at her British grandmother's court-would she encourage...
...failing, she resorted to mystic seances (Princess Radziwill includes table-tipping, which the Baroness denies) conducted by a smooth character who turned out to be ex-jailbird and Parisian hairdresser. This Philippe prophesied a son; the Empress believed herself with child; a date was publicly announced, and excitement ran high. But no child appeared-the Empress having suffered the undignified phenomenon of phantom birth...