Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times are gone when his boyish posteriors used to be chastened by the laying on of a knotted rope end. That occurred when, as a stripling of 12, he ran away from home and signed on as cabin boy to a certain savage skipper. Today he controls the great Newcastle shipping firm of Runciman & Co., Ltd., and is proud to sit in the House of Commons. Prouder still is he of the fact that his son, also Walter, also sits in the House...
There were no startling changes during the first few days of the Moore regime. Photographs of girls with their legs crossed and dresses barely covering the hips continued to appear on the front pages; Elinor Glyn kept on writing about "It;" Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary ran along in pictorial form so that no gum-chewer could miss the point. In the Mirror were photographs of a Negro and a white baby, "brought together by fate" at the Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. The Negro infant got the caption...
...Mirror achieved its greatest notoriety under the editorship of Philip A. Payne, who ran bloated Harry K. Thaw out of town (TIME, Sept. 28, 1925), reopened the Hall-Mills case, finally perished in the Old Glory flight. Founded three and a half years ago, the Mirror was Mr. Hearst's reply to the challenge of the Daily News (Chicago Tribune-owned tabloid) for supremacy among the gum-chewers. Although the Mirror has today a circulation of 450,000 it lags far behind the Daily News, which has 1,225,000. The younger pornoGraphic of Bernarr Macfadden...
...return from Europe, his political career ran a course similar to that of many senators. From the Missouri Legislature he graduated into the House for three Congresses. On November 2, 1926, he was elected to fill out the term of the late Senator S. P. Spencer, which expired in 1927, and to serve a six-year term until...
...twins. The picture of dancing satyrs, the little statue of Venus, the table wine, the Sunday rotogravures-one by one they mysteriously disappeared. Life began to be a queer, suspicious business. Fern was shipped away to school-she would not come back. Flagg overheard his parents quarreling viciously-he ran away. But Rex was pushed at last into young manhood...