Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harding's new itinerary has an important bearing on the World Court proposal. From his action in cutting the number of his "set" speeches from twenty to eight or twelve, various inferences may be drawn...
...Crown Prince of Germany, often alluded to as "Little Willie," celebrated his forty-first birthday on the Isle of Wieringen (off the coast of North Holland) by giving the inhabitants signed photographs, souvenirs, sketches drawn by himself...
...McEvoy has written two acts of true merit, and a third act of uncertain quality. Into his first two acts, he has deftly drawn characters and conditions, has advanced his story in terms of character, has well handled straightforward and honest speech. The beginning of the third act does not seem quite correct, nor in keeping with the rest of the play. The scene in which the unbearable Florrie first makes advances to George and then turns into a bull in a china shop, breaking handy glassware, regardless of Mr. Jewett's expenses when the play has finished...
This wholesale attack on education, has of course, drawn out of storm of opposition; and a writer in the "Century Magazine" has succeeded in beating the psychologists at their own game. By using the results of the same tests, he has proved with remarkable conclusiveness that schooling and efficiency go hand in hand. Incidentally, he has brought to light a good deal of rotteness in the state of education. He has shown that, of those who took the army intelligence tests, the officers were the most successful, with a score considerably higher than that of any group...
...right, but what did the Duc do but turn up, broke, at the very hotel where everybody else in the cast was stopping, and start earning an honest living there as a waiter under the name of Henri Dupont? And what did little daughter do but feel strangely drawn at once to the elegant waiter who reminded her so of the papa she loved? And then, of course, there were two more acts, all full of complications. The Duc lied about himself like a French gentleman, and said he wasn't the Duc-and the millionaire's relatives...