Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Harold A. Cunningham, the Leviathan's present skipper, is such a man. But when last week, on his very first trip with the Leviathan since the War, his first trip as Commodore of the U. S. Lines, he ran his ship aground on Brambles Bank in Southampton Water, he was too good a sport and too proud a sailor to offer even an old saying for an excuse...
...North Bergen, N. J., six dogs led by one "Wolfe," espied William Kendy, eight years old, with several companions. When one of these companions threw a stone toward them the dogs loped toward their assailants. The assailants ran away except for William Kendy who fell down. The six dogs quickly pounced upon him, bit him twenty bloody times; then, when policemen came in answer to his screech-ings, loped away...
...Manhattan, Sarah Lutkin came home to the apartment where she lived with her husband and two terriers. When she knocked, no one answered, no small dog ran barking and sniffing to the threshold. When she forced an entrance, she found Aaron Lutkin dead, asphyxiated by the gas which he had purposely turned on. Beside him lay the terriers, Jennie and Pete, dead also...
...Brooklyn, from the Kings County Hospital, Joan, a police-bitch, the property of a doctor, ran away or was stolen by a motorist. Boys and girls in the children's ward of the hospital moaned with grief. Having escaped from her abductor, or having decided of her own will to return to the Kings County Hospital, Joan fell through the ice into a pond on her way home. A policeman, attracted by her noise, pulled Joan out of the ice and returned her to the bedridden children, who were delighted...
Tony came to the Berkenmeer hospital with an injured arm which, it was tacitly understood among the golfing-aviators, would not prevent him from breaking anyone's jaw. But "Berkenmeer was meant for 'officers and gentlemen,' as the phrase ran"; so, acting on an inverse snobbism, Tony kept to himself. The only man with whom Tony had anything in common-they could both walk on their hands-was Harvey Sayles, an educated and war-shocked aviator, who thought out loud because he liked to hear himself think. He was the kind of a man who reads...