Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tortuous Trail- Noon of Dec. 13, 1934 two Wall Street runners barged into Manhattan's United States Trust Co., delivered $590,000 in 14 U. S. Treasury notes. A bank clerk drew them into his window, went off to obtain the securities the notes were to purchase. When the clerk returned to his cage three minutes later, the notes had vanished. Manhattan police were hopelessly baffled...
...nationally famous orchestras drew a crowd of 200 couples and 100 stags to the Kirkland House Spring Dance last night. Cab Calloway and his original Cotton Club orchestra were featured, with Irving Aaronson's Studebaker Commanders, 15-piece broadcasting band formerly with Bing Crosby, alternating during the Cab's intermissions. Dancing ran from 10 to 3, with a buffet supper after midnight...
Cinemaudiences at Detroit's Michigan Theatre last week cocked their heads dubiously when a roly-poly character named Georges André Martin marched onto the stage as part of the additional entertainment. M. Martin amiably drew on a pair of black gloves whose first and second fingers were missing. Over his four bare fingers he pulled two pairs of little red pants, apologizing for "dressing in public." Thus costumed, M. Martin's agile fingers looked like bare legs, his hands became an incredibly realistic team of tiny dancers. The audience, fascinated by the childish spectacle, began to gurgle...
...born and bred on a Nebraska farm, could handle a team by the time he was 10. He still looks like a country boy. After farmwork, the University of Nebraska was like duck soup for him. He was well into the academic life when the Spanish War started, drew him into a dreary camp in Georgia. His sufferings there under army inefficiency started him thinking about politics, economics, sent him back to teaching with a thirst for modern facts. After posts at Bryn Mawr, Columbia. Nebraska. Chicago, Cornell, Stanford, journalism for the Unpopular Review and The New Republic...
Robert Frost, in his valedictory appearance in Cambridge last night, drew the largest crowd which has been assembled under one roof at Harvard this year--when the white-haired Charles Eliot Norton lecturer ascended the restrum in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock, he faced a packed house of 1800 people...