Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonist Clark said he would move the Casino, transform it into the headquarters of the Three Arts Association. It should be dedicated to music, drama, art. He ran into difficulties. Nervous colonists, fearing for velvety grass, symmetrical trees, refused to allow him to move it bodily. Accordingly, he pulled it down and moved it stick by stick to its new setting farther down the street. It became, the Berkshire Playhouse...
...Governorship. That was won by Walter Jodok Kohler, affluent maker of plumbing fixtures, builder of a "model" village (Kohler, Wis.), father of grown sons, flyer of a speedy airplane, regent of the State University, adherent of Nominee Hoover. The La Follette candidate, U. S. Representative Joseph D. Beck, ran a Wet second by some 20,000 votes. A Dry third ran Fred R. Zimmerman, Wisconsin's present Governor...
After the men had gone in the office, they ran out, rushed into automobiles, and recklessly sped toward fields near Lichtenburg...
Chicagoans these three mighty bankers are, but by migration. The Reynolds brothers were born at Panora, Guthrie County, Iowa. George M.'s first important job was as clerk with the Guthrie County National Bank at Panora. (The town's population is now barely 1,000.) Arthur ran a drug store there for ten years, and then followed his brother into the Guthrie
...Sawdust Paradise. Than Esther Ralston few are more lovely, than Hobart Bosworth few more noble. Somehow La Ralston failed to be convincing as the circus Hallie whom an evangelist (Bosworth) denounced because she ran a shell game. She was arrested, paroled in the evangelist's care. She gets religion, almost loses her boy friend (Reed Howes), but inevitably wins him over to the cause of righteousness...