Word: drawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are two morals to be drawn from all this. One, for the movie producers, is "Go, and do thou likewise." The other, for laymen...
...Therefore, I do not believe the ends of justice would be served by sentencing the defendant to jail," said the judge. Instead he fined Blackmer $20,000. Blackmer's attorney whipped out two $10,000 cashier's checks, drawn on a New York bank, and paid the fine. Old Henry Blackmer walked out of the courtroom, a free man-not exactly vindicated, but at least paid...
Truth & Consequences. Fraser's charge that Newfoundlanders' legal rights end at the gates of the U.S. bases was perfectly true. That was the letter of the British U.S. agreement drawn up when the bases were leased. Since then Newfoundland has become part of Canada, and Canada is not willing to grant, in one of her provinces, concessions to the U.S. as liberal as those that Britain handed over when Newfoundland was a colony. The occasional snarl-up of Canadian and U.S. legal authority rubbed Canadian pride...
Arriving in Manhattan to take over direction of the Metropolitan Opera next June, British Impresario Rudolf Bing told newsmen that the Met was "in excellent shape as far as vocal talent goes," but declined to be drawn out about its notoriously outdated scenery and production. Explained Bing: "It would be rather tactless of me to be critical...
Handkerchiefs came out of purses and dabbed at eyes. Then one woman proposed a moment of silence; all the guests stood up. A few minutes later, weeping clubwomen clustered around an easel on which was displayed one of the last cartoons Helen Hokinson had drawn, a gift to the fund drive. The caption ("So Mary's working for the Community Chest too. How brave!") seemed an oddly suitable epitaph for Cartoonist Hokinson, who had died in the worst crash in U.S. airline history (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...