Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latest book Author-Lawyer Train moves to modernize antiquated laws and legal procedure, make justice just without having to outsmart the law. Taking his Prisoner at the Bar (published in 1905 but still in demand) as a basis, he drew again on his police and court experience to produce From the District Attorney's Office, a popular account of justice, how it works and how it fails, with liberal proposals for making it work better...
This hardly seemed the proper tone for future partners. Nor were the times ripe for calm negotiation. But as the sensations of Germany's conflict with Danzig dwindled before the bigger sensation of a German-Russian anti-aggression pact, Yugoslavia's quarreling factions reluctantly, slowly, drew together: sporazum was announced as ready for signing as soon as Yugoslavia's Regent Prince Paul agreed. A Balkan saying has it that the only difference between a Croat and a Serb is that a Croat is ten minutes late, a Serb ten minutes later. Last week it looked...
...trucks. Head of this vast near-monopoly is the black-mustached, punctiliously correct Viscount Hambleden, grandson of an office boy who was adopted by the first Smith's son. The present Lord Hambleden is religious, pacifistic, nervous. Last month three raffish young British pilots drew indefinite suspensions from the Royal Air Force after they had released streamers of toilet paper over his Thames Bank estate...
Unfulfilled ambition of the late, superserious Sir Edward Grey was to write a leader for the London Times Literary Supplement on the works of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. This summer, bald, easygoing Author Wodehouse received an honorary D. Litt. from Oxford, drew plaudits for his style (TIME, July 10). Though many a lesser humorist has crept up behind the Wodehouse technique, tried to sprinkle salt on its tail, only the Old Master himself can really catch it. He does it by rewriting everything at least three times, concentrating and sharpening his effervescent prolixity. Thus revised, markedly improved since its serialization...
...government sinecures, under the patronage of art-loving, fun-loving King Gustavus III. When the King was murdered. Bellman lost his last job, was put in debtors' prison, got out just in time for a last party before he died. Bellman played the lute, consciously or unconsciously drew upon Bach, Mozart, Scarlatti for melodies. He seldom wrote a song down, let his friends transcribe, collect and publish part of his output. The "Last of the Troubadours" sang of tavern life, of trips to the country, of a ludicrous funeral procession, of his friends Movitz the painter, Mollberg the soldier...