Word: rans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week tall, skinny Isachar Combs and Patrolman Lewis Deaton locked up three men. One of them had a pint of moonshine which he said he had got from Bryan Middleton, 48, who ran a restaurant in Evarts. Combs and Deaton got a search warrant and walked over to Middleton's restaurant...
Elliott Roosevelt's one-man crusade to "make Christians out of Christmas-tree dealers" by underselling them (TIME, Dec. 13) ran afoul of some belligerent apostasy in Manhattan. "Let him sell his skunk spruce," snorted one dealer. "But the buyers will be getting stung-unless they like their needles on the floor instead of on the tree...
Courbet's best admirers were realists like himself (men like Novelist Zola), men who also swam against the popular current. To 20th Century eyes, Courbet looks like a rock-solid conservative. Actually, his realistic art not only ran counter to the great traditions of his day, it profoundly influenced Manet, Renoir and Cezanne, the founding fathers of modern...
...runaround. They guessed that the baby was being given daily airings in the palace grounds. So photographers reconnoitered the streets around "Buck House," looking for a high point from which to shoot over the iron fence and bushes into the grounds. Along Grosvenor Place, which overlooks the grounds, they ran into a snag: leases on the houses there, owned by the Duke of Westminster, prohibit tenants from creating any nuisance for their royal neighbors, so tenants were timid about cameramen. But a few lensmen talked their way to the rooftops and began a long vigil that lasted through eight rainy...
...make high-priced newsprint carry both editorial matter and advertising in the same space. The paper first printed a one-color ad for Delta Air Lines, then printed the financial page over it (see cut). Adman B. D. Adams, who thought it up for his airline client and ran the ad in four Southern papers, said graciously that any newspaper could use his idea...