Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much more lengthy and fiery was the discussion than that of two days before when the legislature voted, 111-102, to accept the Committee's report which advocated that the bill be erased from the ledgers. During the recording of the ballots, yeas and nays ran neck and neck, and the last fifteen members voiced the deciding vote...
...Francisco Bay, made arrangements for spot-news releases on happenings in that famed and gloomy jail. As a pressagent, Assistant Suydam knew what Washington correspondents wanted because he had been a successful one himself. Brooklyn-born and Dutch-speaking, he was World War Correspondent for the Brooklyn Eagle. He ran the Eagle's Washington Bureau from 1922 until he left to help out Homer Cummings. In his old office in the Colorado Building, Henry Suydam was a neighbor of the Newark News's Correspondent Arthur J. Sinnott, now his boss as editor-in-chief. Old acquaintance...
...stopped squarely in the middle of the track to "back" him (honor the other dog's find by pointing too), as a stanch dog should always do. Just then Mr. Chance, who was about 200 yd. behind, sighted a long freight train puffing down the track. Frantically he ran forward, shouting and waving at the engineer, pointing to the motionless figure ahead. The engineer put on his brakes, too late. Brilliant Joe was still holding his point as the freight ground him under...
...mettle at Grand Junction last year. During an exercise run for the benefit of MARCH OF TIME cameramen, he collided with a pack of darky dogs in pursuit of a rabbit, was ganged, had a collie's fang sunk clear through his left flank. Few days later he ran a strong three-hour race in the National...
...years afterwards the Fall River Globe kept the bloody memory of Aug. 4 alive, every year on that date ran a thinly veiled attack on Lizzie Borden. Fall River citizens shunned her on the street. She changed her name to Lizbeth, but refused to move away. Did Sister Emma suspect her? No one knows. They lived together for eleven years, then Emma left her, never saw Lizzie again. When they died, in the same year (1927), they were buried in the Fall River cemetery alongside the others...