Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the past several weeks Prince Barbu Stirby's chauffeur has been cashing at the Bank Generale, in Bucharest, large checks drawn against the Royal Exchequer, in virtue of His Highness' former authority as Keeper of the Privy Purse. Officials of the Bank Generale all know that the Prince has ceased to hold that office. Yet the chief teller paid the checks on sight, paid...
...this round several thousand words were hurled. Mr. Aldrich mailed to stockholders a 69-page pamphlet summing up Mr. Rockefeller Jr.'s objections to Col. Stewart and reviewing in great detail the Stewart conduct for the past seven years. Col. Stewart immediately flayed the Aldrich pamphlet as "a cunningly drawn document . . . nothing less than cowardly and dastardly libel...
THIS biography, almost 400 pages long, is amazingly interesting, amazingly true and amazingly well-written. Its central theme, more substantial in its actual story than the plots of many of our popular novels, is drawn from the experiences of a young English-Scandinavian immigrant in Canada and the United States...
ANOTHER champion has risen in behalf of the much-championed colleges and their undergraduates. Mr. Hawes, a national secretary of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, has drawn on his long experience with American institutions of higher learning to conclude, so he says, that the undergraduates of today are very much like their fathers, and that there is no real cause for alarm among social thinkers in the mental and moral condition of the youth of the land...
Taking an unusual theme, the oppression of the Indian by the whites, padding it with a hopelessly drawn out plot, partly redeeming it with some excellent acting, and coloring it with some highly artificial photography, the directors of "Redskin" have produced the rather mediocre picture now showing at the Metropolitan Theater...