Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge spurred Horse Mistletoe suddenly. Horse Mistletoe ran away, for about a quarter-mile, before "Dakota" Clyde Jones caught up and President Coolidge could rein in. This was the last time President Coolidge rode Horse Mistletoe in the Black Hills...
...labor organizer whom Mr. Berger had introduced to Marxism and whom Mr. Berger was to continue introducing for 30 years. When the Socialist National Committee was formed in 1898, Mr. Berger was of course on it. But not until 1910 did he attain a civic office, though he ran and ran for mayor and for both houses of Congress. In 1911 he became both the editor of the Milwaukee Leader (unique U. S. Socialist daily) and the first Socialist ever elected U. S. Representative...
...arose over a drink of brandy. The Vitaphone Co. and one John T. Adams were in court; Mr. Adams battling for $1,250 which he feels Vitaphone owes him as part of a $15,000 salary as musical director. Mr. Adams fed Mary Lewis stimulant in a teacup, so ran the testimony, and her resulting record of the Barcarole (Tales of Hoffman) showed voice strain, was worthless...
...Yale Endowment Fund raised, Chairman of the Yale Corporation Otto Tremont Bannard last week sent in his resignation. Said he, in the battered phraseology of President Coolidge: "I do not choose to run for the Yale Corporation in 1928." When he ran for Mayor of New York City against Justice William J. Gaynor in 1909, Mr. Bannard was described as "a wheel-horse."* Busy-body reporters trying to color his personality, inquired: "What is you favorite form of exercise?" The reply: "None. I tell you I'm the damnedest, most uninteresting man you ever met!" He is also, however...
...September day that Fisticuffer Gene Tunney arrived in Chicago, one of the motorcycle policemen in his honking, roaring, droning, whizzing escort fell off his machine and was badly hurt. Last week some gas merchants held a convention in Chicago and one of their honking, droning, whizzing, roaring escort ran down and hurt two women in the crowded Loop district. Last week also, Prince Wilhelm of Sweden visited Chicago. Before arriving he begged the Chicago police not to insist upon a honking, droning, whizzing, roaring escort for him; not, at least, to equip the escort with sirens. Prince Wilhelm said that...