Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This drew a final British retort from the most potent statesman in Prime Minister Baldwin's Cabinet, lean, hook-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, frequently mentioned as a future Prime Minister. Speaking at Floors Castle in Scotland, Mr. Chamberlain asked for an even larger British Navy. "The dangerously low level to which our defenses have fallen has caused some to treat us contemptuously," said he. "This is not a tolerable situation. . . . Italian opinion has been led to regard Britain as a monster of hypocrisy and selfishness. This is not true...
...Hopper, 77, oldtime actor; after long illness (heart disease); in Kansas City, where he had lately been mildly successful as a radio commentator at symphony concerts. New York-born, trained for law, he became a professional actor at New Haven in 1879, played with the Barrymores' grandmother (Louisa Lane Drew), spent more than half a century in the theatre, was noted chiefly for his Gilbert & Sullivan roles and his perennial recitals of "Casey at the Bat." He was unsuccessful in cinema, which he regarded as a "fleeting novelty." His six wives included Actresses Edna Wallace and Hedda Hopper. Asked...
...lead-colored features were swollen and disfigured with sores; his eyes, bloodshot arid yellow-grey, were nevertheless serene. He spoke to her gently. Awaiting her opportunity, she gave him details of an uprising in Caen. When he pushed aside his proof to note the information, she approached him, drew the knife from her pocket and "with one passionate movement she drove it home, straight downwards through the naked breast, up to the hilt, then drew it out and cast it down on the plank. . . . With a raucous cry Marat fell backwards . . . stiffened in agony, his eyes staring, his tongue protruding...
...special train bearing Edward of Wales from the French Riviera drew into Geneva shortly before the Foreign Secretary was to address the League Assembly. Swiss burghers, startled out of their stolidity, spread exciting rumors that on this supreme occasion the British heir apparent, though precluded from taking an active part, would lend the weight of his presence to the Struggle for Peace. From the railway station H. R. H. was driven to one of the big hotels bordering the Lake of Geneva where he took a bath, ate a hearty breakfast, sallied forth with a group of swank friends...
...electioneering harangue to British voters, 11,000,000 of whom have just signed a highly idealistic "peace ballot." French voters also must be harangued, and soon that olive-skinned Auvergnat, dexterous Premier Pierre Laval, mounted the Assembly rostrum. Eight minutes later, when he stepped down, M. Laval drew his arm in most friendly fashion through that of Italian Chief Delegate Baron Pompoe Aloisi and they strolled down the aisle together while editors were getting out such banner heads as: LAVAL PUTS FRANCE BEHIND LEAGUE; UNITY WITH BRITAIN ISOLATES ITALY; ROME STUNNED, MAY LEAVE GENEVA...