Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wartime gunner in the 5th Canadian Siege Battery, Dr. Bonnell has held pastorates in Prince Edward Island, St. John, N. B. and Winnipeg where during the past six years he received 1,000 persons into Westminster United Church, drew overflow audiences in two lecture halls adjoining his church. Last year Dr. Bonnell was the youngest man ever to receive a D.D. from his alma mater, Dalhousie University in Halifax. Two sermons at Fifth Avenue Church one Sunday last month were enough to earn Dr. Bonnell the call, which involves $10,000 a year, a three-month vacation and "the equivalent...
...Roosevelt and the pastor of Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower drew different conclusions as to the worth of the Roosevelt Administration at the halfway mark. "The big achievement of the last two years is the great change in the thinking of the country,'' declared Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. ''I also think that in spite of criticism the administration of relief has been a great achievement." Included in the list of what she considered her husband's accomplishments: the Banking Bill, Tennessee Valley Authority ("a decided accomplishment"), CCC ("a grand thing"), subsistence homesteads...
...impulse he rose, and padded across the room to his desk, and drew from it a packet of letters. These he skimmed through, smiling abstractedly; at one he blushed furiously and wagged his head in self-reproof. He looked long at the picture on his desk, and then his gaze wandered guiltily to his book, now abandoned on the floor. Again he stood at the window, but this time he saw nothing. He took in great gulps of the sweet air, trying to choke himself on the scents of Spring...
...solving this affair, the Bishop had recourse to the more exoteric passages of his criminal literature. He drew his deductions from such conventional clues as fingerprints and lipstick stains on glasses. He blinded the thieves with an old-fashioned puff of snuff. And by turning out the lights he tricked them into his cellar when they appeared at his manse in search of the loot he took from them. With the culprits incarcerated below stairs, His Lordship has time to disentangle a pair of lovers from the plot, send them off toward the altar before the curtain falls on this...
...dark. Growing momentarily, the crowd surged down the street to the Strand. Crash! Down came the advertising displays. Back & forth between the Strand and the Palace shuttled the mob. Someone had a crate of eggs. Others bombarded the police with hard cinders, soft, squashy fruit. Badgered policemen drew their pistols, spattered the pavement with bullets. Perhaps students, too, had pistols. One bullet ricocheted into the leg of Edward Nabors, 36, as he skirted the mob on his way home from the library. A blackjack sent another youth to the hospital for three days. Two and a half hours later when...