Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still dreamt sentimentally of motherhood, but she painted her concept like a realist; her children's eyes were the holy, sightless eyes of Correggio's cherubs but their bodies were the bodies of minute Frenchmen, hired for thirty francs a week in a Paris atelier, and drawn with surpassing skill. The great museums began to buy her pictures. Very few are privately owned-only those which she put on sale in March, 1924, when her doctor told her she was going blind. Like many an American of artistic intelligence, she was far better known in Europe than...
They formed the "57th St. and 5th Ave." Corporation and had plans drawn for a magnificent 55 story hotel. Then they went to bankers to negotiate a loan. The bankers promised to furnish $16,000,000 but wished certain changes made in the plans. They thought that 13 stories should be lopped off the design and some of the splendor eliminated. So plans for a 42 story hotel were prepared. Then for an unpublished reason the members of the syndicate fell out with one another...
...solve this gritty problem a Citizens Play Jury was planned some years ago. A panel of several hundred jurors, intelligent citizens from all walks of life, was drawn. When a complaint was lodged a dozen of these jurors were delegated to judge the entertainment. If nine of the dozen found it, or any part of it, unfit, the whole or the part was to be withdrawn. The Producing Managers Association and the Actors Equity Association pledged themselves to enforce its decrees by withdrawing their plays or calling out their actors...
...Senators from the West are attempting to bring up anything that may impress the electors 'back home,' and even so able a man as Borah allows himself to be drawn into the old forms of mischief making...
...Queen if she would promise good behavior. Across 2,000 miles of water and 3,000 miles of land, President Dole faced President Cleveland and refused to abandon Hawaiian democracy to any king or queen. When McKinley was inaugurated in 1897, a new treaty of annexation was drawn and ratified. Sanford B. Dole, the President, became Sanford B. Dole, the Territorial Governor?and so he ruled for six years longer...