Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began playing political badminton with suggestions that New York City be investigated. While Governor Roosevelt temporized, Republican U. S. Attorney Charles H. Tuttle, aspirant for the gubernatorial nomination next autumn, was busy. He it was who brought the Vause, Walsh and Ewald cases to light, leaving the public to draw the political inference. He it was who startled Mayor Walker into starting an "investigation" of his own last month, supervised by his Commissioner of Accounts, James A. Higgins...
...picture out of it in its present form. The trouble is that the plot has been padded with pointless routine fooling and the old songs replaced with poorer though newer ones, badly sung. It still, however, contains that fine scene in which two partners in a tottering garter business draw a poker hand to decide which shall serve as the other's butler for a year...
...March 27: . . . The President is getting so outdone that he says that he will suggest to Lloyd George that he and Lloyd George draw up the peace terms and if France refuses them, publish the fact and the terms and go home...
...judge ruled: "The accused is acquitted. The court may not judge in a sphere where science remains undecided. . . . No one has a right to complain if, going to a clairvoyant, he does not learn the truth, even as no one ought to find fault if he does not draw the winning number in a lottery...
...Rollin might draw some comfort from the fact that British shipbuilding during the last three months was off 222,000 tons compared with the corresponding period in 1929. But no comfort came from news that during the same period Germany had laid keels for 64,000 new tons and had built 237,468 tons, while France had begun construction on but 20,000 new tons, had turned out only 186,960 tons...