Word: drew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Justice Stone has just finished building a red brick house a block away from Chief Justice Taft's on Wyoming Avenue. To insure getting everything he wanted within it, he drew the contract for its construction himself...
...dancer came out and began her undulations. Through her Oriental veil, Bobbie Spencer recognized Helen, the blonde witch whom he loved and had persuaded that very afternoon to quit the show business. Maddened, sickish, he tried to drag her away. Showman Blackie intervened. When Bobbie lunged at him, Blackie drew a gun and fired...
...Other holders of this record: Dan Kelly, Howard Drew, Charley Paddock, Cyril Coaffee, Chester Bowman...
...most modern music is in the tickets. Exception: Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky. He is always "good box-office." Manhattan's League of Composers, with Stravinsky's half-hour ballet, Les Noces, on the program (first U. S. production), preceded only by a 17th Century academic tidbit, last week drew a $25,000 audience to the Metropolitan Opera House, the smartest audience since the opening of the opera season last autumn...
...slight injury in batting practice the day before, starting F. E. Nugent '29 in the leadoff position. He put B. H. Ticknor '31 in centerfield, when he learned that the gymnasts were starting their southpaw Lipp, but Ticknor continued in his batting slump, striking out three times. Nugent drew a walk in the first inning. E. H. McGrath '31 singled, and a passed ball which rolled into the Crimson dugout let them both in. A moment later when the catcher dropped his third strike. Ticknor saw first base for the first time since early in the Southern trip...