Word: drew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark fellow, as conservative in appearance and dress as a discreet haberdashery poster. In 1922 he graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., where he was voted "Most Musical" and "In Worst with the Faculty." Then he took his banjo to Yale, found plenty of pianos there, alternately drew for the Yale Record and devised original syncopation. At the end of his freshman year he left college, subsequently studied at the Yale art school and Manhattan's Art Students League for a period of a month apiece. These months he considers wasted. He gathered jazz orchestras which played...
...Nearer drew the ship to land. But also Death drew nearer. The race was ended when the Ile de France was still a day distant from Manhattan. As the liner docked, young Mrs. Wells said that she would take the malaria wasted body of her husband home to Minneapolis for burial...
...surplice, Rector Randolph Ray stepped from the quiet of his sacristy into the flower-decorated chancel at the Little Church Around the Corner* last week, to preside at the unveiling of the fifth stained glass window there in memory of famed actors. This time it was to commemorate John Drew,† whose mother had a pew at the Church before...
...When cross examination began all eyes were fixed upon Bebe, ears strove to catch the answers which he made in thick, ungracious tones interspersed with grunts. It was all so primitive, so fascinating, that no one noticed another Albanian, one Ziga Vuciterna, who arose pantherlike among the spectators, stealthily drew two revolvers, advanced upon Prisoner Bebe with a wild and sudden yell, and opened a murderous double fire of dum-dum bullets...
Cartoonist Art Young of Wisconsin, Chicago, Manhattan, Paris and Bethel, Conn., drew some-of-the-first daily political cartoons and the first colored news supplements in the U. S., for the oldtime Chicago Inter-Ocean...