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Word: rans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year-old daughter who drank, last week, some gin in a speakeasy. When Mrs. Maude Wilson heard about this, she behaved not unlike the late Carrie Nation. Seizing a hatchet, she rushed to the speakeasy, swung high, swung low, shattered a mirror, windows, gin glasses. Barflies cheered her; bartenders ran out into the alley. Police came, but they did not arrest her. Cried she: "I warned them [bartenders] not to sell liquor to my daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Hatchet | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Subscriber Brandon's impressions are entirely incorrect. Many a Jew, many a Protestant, at least one Agnostic, many a Social Registerite belongs to Tammany, of which Members Horatio Seymour (1868), Samuel J. Tilden (1876) ran for President on the Democratic ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Judge Ewing vigorously defended his action: "The children are the most important principals in the [Kourim] case. When this couple ran away at their age it was a gay adventure. . . . When the first child was one year old some court should have given them a lesson in birth control. . . . Their trouble is a direct reflection on the law of this state. The courts are forbidden to give out birth control information, the very thing that would have saved this couple from this situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Birth Control | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...full freight cars. Here P. D. Armour, Joseph Leiter, James A. Patten and many another operator became famous. Here Arthur Cutten, prominent in Wall Street's late bull market, took the title of Corn King from J. Ogden Armour. Here "Old Hutch"-P. B. Hutchinson-ran the price of wheat from 89¾? a bushel to $2.00, then watched the market collapse to 60?. Present value of a Trade seat is $45,000. When the building opened it was $2,400. Even further back, in 1848, when a few pioneers organized the first grain exchange, they had to supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Index: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Twenty members of the University and Freshman Cross Country Teams who ran in the meet with Yale will have a dinner at the University Club tonight at 6.30 o'clock as guests of D. F. O'Connell '21, former track captain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cross Country Awards Amended | 12/13/1928 | See Source »

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