Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Wilbur's brother for the Navy; Donovan for Attorney-General; New or Good for Postmaster-General; Work again for Interior; J. J. Davis for Labor; one of three Juliuses-Klein, Barnes, Rosenwald -for Commerce; some midwesterner for Agriculture, perhaps Publisher Dante Melville Pierce of Des Moines-so ran theory and conjecture. A "truthful declaration" was not expected for some time, perhaps not until the President-elect's return from South America (see page...
With a horse, Ulysses loosed destruction over Troy. In 1871, Mrs. O'Leary did the same for Chicago with a petulant cow, which shattered an oil lantern in its straw-lined stall. Flames ran amuck, ravaged the straggling town, left it blackened, hollow, crisp. Disconsolate, penniless, young Potter Palmer stood in the ashes of his home. Suddenly, where was Bertha? Bertha had borrowed a buggy, careened into a nearby village, wired New York for an extension of credit. New York agreed, and-phoenix-like-Chicago and the Potter Palmers soared together...
...Fred G. Bonfils, sometime gambler, fighter, and more recently philanthropist, who is proud to say that his grandfather (surnamed Buonfiglio) was a cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte. When the West was a gold brick, Mr. Bonfils bounced about until he profited $800,000 in the Little Louisiana Lottery. Then he ran into a garrulous bartender named H. H. Tammen and they bought a newspaper, the Denver Post, with which they fattened the gambler's wad and extended the bartender's ingenuity. They had a circus, too (Sells-Floto). But, for raw meat and dripping ballyhoo, the Denver Post...
Harvard started off with a rush gaining a two point lead in the first period, but the tables were reversed in the second quarter, and led by the brilliant playing of Markward the Crimson's opponents ran up a total of five points showing completely their superiority before the final whistle blew...
...daughter began to champion one of these, a violent young political laborite; and his darling younger daughter confessed she had allowed another, a scandalous man-about-town, to make love to her, he scuttled and flapped. In spite of his exertions, one daughter (not the one he had suspected) ran off with the laborite, and the other discovered an unexpected admirer. The discovery, and the confusion of identities smacks of threadbare "literary device," but Mr. Swinnerton (author of Nocturne, The Elder Sister) never fails in charm of atmosphere, virtuosity of human converse...