Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night, and all the next day and night rain fell on the little mountains of western New England. It ran down the mountains in rivulets, into the brooks and small rivers, into the big Connecticut River, which is the boundary of Vermont and New Hampshire; into the Merrimac in New Hampshire; into the Hoosick River, which drops to the Hudson out of Vermont and Massachusetts; into Otter Creek, which flows northwest into Lake Champlain; into the Winooski, which tumbles through the Green Mountains for 60 miles...
...kneeling by the bed, .his hands stiffly and desperately twisted together, his head pushed down against his arms. He did not say anything when the three people came into the room. The policeman touched him, shook him a little, then saw the smear of blood that ran down his cheek from a hole in his temple. "I guess he bumped himself off," said the policeman, "I'll have to have his name." "Orbes," the manager told him, "Marceline Orbes...
...Silvers, his partner, killed himself. When Marceline came back to the Hippodrome in 1915 after a trip abroad, his crowds were already beginning to prefer the silent flutter of faces on a screen to the gayeties of a nimble droll. A mocking shadow ran after him for the next few years, whispering an insult in his ear every time the crowds at Ringling's sat silent when he twisted an eyebrow at them. By 1920, he used to pick up dollars by coming in at business men's dinners and trying to make the solemn faces crack...
...boxing gloves; Principal Rainey stood by with a stopwatch to mark two-minute rounds; teachers acted as referee and umpire; other students watched. The boxing match began. Ralph's opponent whacked him in the ribs and Ralph cried quits before the first round was over. After school he ran home to complain to his parents. They had Principal Rainey arrested for disorderly conduct. Last week in police court the Principal explained his methods of school discipline: "I believe we have the best method of character training here in Brooklyn. When a boy is insolent to his teacher...
Obstructions near the basketball floor, which formerly interfered with the players when they ran off the court, have been removed...