Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undressed. There are also two funnymen- melancholy little Jimmie Savo and handsome Jack Benny- and one extremely funny man, Herb Williams. Mr. Williams culminates his evening's work when, while playing the piano, he pauses to remove a sandwich from a trapdoor in the piano stool, and to draw himself a glass of beer from a spigot under the keyboard...
...Government that the dole must be increased by paying the unemployed five shilling per week for their first child, three shillings for each succeeding child, from birth to the age for leaving school. A joker in the bill was the fact that illegitimate as well as legitimate children would draw the allowance. Agonized Liberal and Conservative editors cried that the measure as proposed would enormously increase the dole for British taxpayers, "threaten the sanctity of the home, and put a premium upon promiscuity...
...After four and a half centuries," said Dr. Charcot to eager Italian correspondents at Paris, "we are just beginning to be able to draw a picture of what Columbus looked like. He was taller than average. He had a long face and a long aquiline nose. His dimpled chin showed strength of character. His cheeks were like red apples, but his grey eyes were wells of emotion. His whole face was freckled, and by 30 he was totally grey...
...mile long, a vast shining serpent lay upon the water. It was a serpent made of heavy, corrugated steel tubing-the deep-sea section of the pipe which Inventor George S. Claude of France had been laboring more than a year to lay, and through which he planned to draw cold water from the ocean bottom for a revolutionary seapower plant. A shoreward section of the pipe had been successfully laid the fortnight before (TIME, June 23). The seaward section, the most important one, the most ticklish one to lay, cost more than $1,000,000. Two steel cables...
...Author. Jean Cocteau lives in Paris where he likes to play at being an habitual invalid, draw a little, used to mix drinks for himself and friends in his own saloon. Le Boeuf sur le Toit. Not long ago, his fancy led him to embrace Catholicism. He is also fond of having his ascetic hands photographed as he lies in bed. Other works: Grand Ecart, Thomas the Impostor, A Call to Order...