Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Returning (in 1926), the Ambassador ran into a series of complications. There was the incident of the suspected Bolshevist influence in the Mexican Government. There was the war between the Calles Administration and the Roman Catholic Church. Later there were the documents stolen from the U. S. Department of State and discovered in the custody of the Mexican Government. These documents were particularly annoying inasmuch as they contained many unpleasant reflections on the Mexican Government, but their most sensational passages were later found to be forgeries, interpolated by the same knavish hand which first had stolen them...
Soon the royal party hastened to Buckingham Palace, where the Duchess of York ran to the cradle of her 14-month-old baby whom she had not seen for six months...
...intercollegiate tennis singles matches at the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, Pa., last week, were not up to snuff, but the championship went to the Southwest for the first time in the 42 years' history of the tournament.* Wilmer Allison, 22, of the University of Texas, ran Ben Gorchakoff of Occidental College (Los Angeles) off the court in 39 minutes in the finals. Score...
...McPherson, born near Ingersoll, Ontario, in 1890, ran away from home in 1907 (at 17) to accompany one Robert Semple, evangelist. They barnstormed the tabernacles of Canada, China, Australia. The man died in 1911-a month before Roberta Star Semple was born. The widow pet-named her baby "Star of the East...
...prank: "Antony and I had a world of fun. We would rush up to a house (in the darkness), knock loudly at the door, and then hide ourselves in the shadows. When the door was opened, we let out a long, dismal, wolflike howl, and then ran away giggling in the dark...