Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaker Byrns called on his Rules Committee to produce a parliamentary rule cutting short debate, forbidding any amendments to the bill except those proposed by the Appropriations Committee. Obligingly Rules Chairman John Joseph O'Connor drew up the necessary rule and took it to his committee. To his distress three of his nine Democratic committeemen balked strenuously for three reasons...
...advertisement, which was also inserted in the Chicago Tribune and the Des Moines Register, actually drew only four pairs of red flannels. Of these, one was from Boston, by way of Minneapolis (the set I bought), one was in Illinois and two (still in use) in Wisconsin. It would appear that the report that I had 100 responses from the Gazette advertising is an attempt to make it appear that red flannels still abound in Iowa. The title of the painting is to be The Bath-1880 not Farm Life. This further inaccuracy seems to be an even more flagrant...
...president of the Academy, read the message, called off the names of other famed cripples-,Æsop. Richard III, Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott-and pointed to one-legged Dramatist Laurence Stallings who was at the speakers' table of the banquet. From their successes Dr. Wilson drew a moral: "The orthopedic surgeons have the duty not only of relieving the patient of physical deformity, but of watching over his mental training during the long periods of hospitalization. The cripple must be made to understand that while his disability can be greatly relieved, he will always carry some...
...closeup scenes showing hero & heroine together in a cabin. Even French critics found these shots "extremely audacious" and Fritz Mandel, Austrian munitions maker and husband of Hedy Kiesler, was so outraged that he used all his might and money to have the film suppressed throughout Europe. Last summer Extase drew enormous crowds when it was exhibited at the International Film Exposition in Venice. Pope Pius was so disturbed by its apparent popularity that he had his Vatican newspaper denounce it (TIME...
Down a California highway toward Los Angeles, late one afternoon, roared a car whose driver had pulled a hat down over his face, wedged an unlighted cigar between his teeth. Close behind roared a motorcycle policeman. At the hamlet of Santarita the car slowed down and the motorcycle drew alongside. The speeder stopped, pushed up his hat, ripped out his cigar. Said he: "Yes, I am Barney Old' field To Speeder Oldfield, first man ever to drive an automobile one mile in one minute, now a special advertising man for Chrysler Motors, the policeman handed a ticket for driving...