Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Francis Adams: Good at everything. Extraordinary manager of our finances, whom the heritage of public service has drawn to the charge of the country's navy...
Plans are not yet complete for the new building which will rise as soon as the present Colonial Club has been razed, but it is expected that definite plans will be drawn up, and activity commenced upon the new project in the immediate future. The new Faculty Club will probably be completed and ready for occupancy by September of 1930 if present indications may be taken at face value, and in its completed form will provide a meeting place and all the conveniences of a savant organization for approximately 1000 members...
...lady living near the centre of the state on Lang Syne Plantation, 40 miles from Columbia. She, Mrs. Julia Peterkin, began acquiring national distinction as an authoress five years ago when she published Green Thursday, followed in 1927 by Black April. All her major characters are South Carolina Negroes, drawn as she has known them all her life on a South Carolina plantation. Not everything that plantation Negroes do is charming or even pleasant to contemplate. But nearly everything that Mrs. Peterkin's characters did and said was interesting. She has a great talent for creative observation and description...
...difficult to remember any two foregatherings of the nations which are in greater contrast than this present conference and that which has gone down in history as the Dawes Conference. There was politics and to spare in the Plan which was drawn up in 1924, but for sheer horse-trading no meeting of the representatives of the nations in recent years has compared with this...
TIME certainly meant no depreciation of gracious Mrs. Coolidge. The distinction drawn was purely one in kind, not degree, of charm...