Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Love Duel. It would save a great deal of translating if English-writing dramatists could learn of the debonair didos that presumably occur in Vienna and Budapest after the curtains are drawn. But to most English-writing dramatists sex remains the cue for either a problem play or an Oriental extravaganza. Therefore central Europe is combed for playwrights akin to the gently libidinous Ferenc Molnar. One of the latest combings is Lili Hatvany, authoress of The Love Duel...
...Pasteur Medal, which is awarded annually by the French Department to the best debater on a subject drawn from contemporary French politics, was first presented in 1898 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin...
...pleases me to see that you are evidently friendly to Canada, from which the United States have drawn so many people. Perhaps you might consider a suggestion to have a page de voted to conspicuous Canadian happenings. The relations between the two countries are fast be coming more firmly interlocked financially, socially and intellectually...
...Honor. Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh stood there, his shoulders drooped in memory of Le Bourget, Paris, 1927. At sharp noon a bugle shrilled. Fifteen wiry French sailors lifted the coffin, carried it cautiously down the green-carpeted gangplank, through the purple-and-black draped pier to a black caisson drawn by six horses. As if freighted with the sorrow of two nations, the casket became unmanageably heavy. In 30 hands it swayed perilously. Others leaped forward and with much straining helped to hoist it into position on the caisson. Bands took up the doleful beat of a funeral march. Soldiers...
...winner of the debate, which is held annually on a subject drawn from contemporary French politics, will receive the Pasteur Medal, an award which was established in 1898 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin...