Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME and I have already noted an improvement in your issued of August 1, August 8 and August 15. They have more savor already and they seem to me to show that you are now successfully gleaning a much larger field of news information than you could possibly have drawn upon in small-town Cleveland. J. C. SINGER...
...Italian Minister of Finance, suave, Vandyke-bearded, came on board. They-the richest men in politics in two nations-chatted quietly, shunned weighty subjects. Count Volpi made his fortune in trading companies, was once Governor of Tripoli, has (as Minister of Finance) raised the value of the lira and drawn up the Italian Debt Settlements...
...Beach made a speech. Little Rollins, he said, needs a ten-million-dollar endowment. It needs buildings. Plans are drawn for "the most beautiful group of college buildings of this type of architecture in America. Hamilton Holt, the president, has made in California and in the Mediterranean countries a special survey of buildings suitable for the Florida climate and is now having architects draw plans calling for the best effects...
Despatches from Rome last week indicated that His Holiness no longer uses his carriage drawn by a team of brave horses. If so, he has changed his daily regime disclosed last Easter. It was then his custom to set out at 4 p. m. daily for a drive-in his carriage week days, in one of his motor cars Sundays (TIME, April 25). The Vatican equerries apparently now function more as garage attendants than as stable attendants...
...news scribe who long ago made the Jones career his own, has found time to write an autobiography.* The book reads as though Rob Jones had dropped in after Sunday supper on his good neighbors, the U. S. public, and fallen to swapping reminiscences, informally, naturally, letting himself be drawn out but not without deprecations such as, "Oh, I don't know about that, now," and confessions like, "I was cocky, all right...