Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tied for the third Vice-Speakership. To break this tie the two men drew lots from a bowl. Just at that moment the official tellers announced that a recount showed there had been no tie, awarded the third Vice-Speakership to astonished Dr. Loebe who had lost the draw...
Even in Boston the mutations of time make themselves known; some visually, some tangibly, some even socially. Miss Lowell and Mrs. Jack Gardner no longer dominate Symphony Hall and the Fenway, respectively, the good burghers of Beacon Street draw a veil over the unhappy memory of Lee Higginson's supremacy in State Street, President Lowell is abandoning Harvard to its fate, and now Charles E. Alexander, of "The Boston Evening Transcript," has resigned to seek the ease with honor to which his thirty-five years as absolute arbiter of Boston society entitle him. Perhaps only Bostonians will recognize the cataclysmic...
...complex overhauling of veterans' compensation, allowance, pensions, insurance and hospitalization to save about $127,000,000. Examples: No Federal income tax payer could draw a pension. Civil disability allowances would be granted only the totally and permanently disabled. Retired emergency officers in hospitals would have their pensions cut to $20 per month after 30 days treatment. Veterans now drawing $50 per month for arrested tuberculosis would lose their compensation. A system of periodic physical examinations would weed out malingerers...
...draughtsmen in the main draw from models, not from life, whereas Mr. Arno, with television penetration visualizes his types while they are unconscious of his existence and presents them with a cinematic spontaneity and forceful pen and brush that in their presence we believe in their actuality...
...Senator, Charles Curtis was always "one of the boys." Nothing pleased him more than to take $2 from wealthy Senator Couzens in a game of draw poker. As Republican floor leader for five years his only speech was: "I move that the Senate do now adjourn." But the Vice-Presidency and the Mayflower Hotel worked a great change in him. He took his job with utmost seriousness. He ceased to be the friendly backslapper. He began making dull pompous speeches on all public occasions. Declared Vice President-elect John Nance Garner...