Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horde of red devils bent on storming the "Fortress of Faith." Massed brass bands blared, everybody burst into song and with tremendous enthusiasm the "Defenders of the Faith" rushed down and scattered the forces of evil. More quietly but with smart military precision the graduating class deployed, reformed ranks, ran through a series of drill maneuvers. Then Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of LIFE, appeared on the stage of her Angelus Temple, sermonized until long after midnight...
...Show" with all important manufacturers exhibiting at the 600-acre Samoset trailer town. Scheduled for the annual Florida Orange Festival at Winter Haven next week is a "Trailer Parade," with an even 1,000 mobile homes competing for fancy prizes. Estimates of the number of trailers already in Florida ran as high as 26,000, the increase over last year as high as 200%. By official count trailers were rolling into the State at the rate of 25 per hour. Noted was a phenomenal increase in the number of trailers bearing magazine salesmen and itinerant pitch...
Promise (by Henry Bernstein; Gilbert Miller, producer). In 1907 Henry Bernstein's first Broadway production, The Thief, featured the late Kyrle Bellew, ran for nine months. His Melo, presented in 1931, gave Basil Rathbone two months' employment. Never the author of a distinguished play, Henry Bernstein in his native France is nevertheless a distinguished playwright, an able literary psychologist, a sensitive observer, a careful craftsman. It takes a little something more, however, to make a good play, and that, unanimously decided Manhattan reviewers, is what Promise...
...morning last week the New Dealing Philadelphia Record front-paged two copyrighted stories which took up five of eight top-column positions. The story which the Record had first in Philadelphia ran under a three-column headline: PAINT MAKER GIVES 76 EMPLOYES $100,000 SO THEY CAN START YEAR FREE FROM DEBT, CALLS IT HIS CONTRIBUTION TO NEW DEAL...
...Kings have been governed by strumpets." As Henri's Queen, she showed what she thought of strumpets by never interfering, by doing her quiet queenly duty to the King's taste. Henri liked his exercise and was proud of his prowess at tilting. One unlucky day he ran one course too many with the Captain of his Guard and got the point of a lance...