Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Will you do as I ask?" cried Republican Doumergue at last. Fascist de la Roque drew himself up and saluted the little man in civilian grey. "Oui, monsieur le President," he said. "To you the 'Cross of Fire' can only answer...
There was an attainder, a trial for high treason, a sentence of death. The kindness of the Lieutenant of the Tower was acknowledged, reproachfully, perhaps, by the gift of an inscribed copy of the English Prayer Book. With this as a last act, Lady Jane drew near the scaffold on Tower Hill, beholding on route the gory body of her husband, who had preceded her to the block. The execution took place, amidst popular lamentations, on the twelfth of February...
During the War the Londonderrys with drew upstairs into their own attic, turned the rest of Londonderry House into a hospital. To the Marchioness and to her arch-Tory husband in those days J. Ramsay MacDonald was "that Pacifist!" ? the lowest of socialist scum. As late as 1929, Lord Londonderry publicly hoped that Prime Minister MacDonald would lose his parliamentary seat in Seaham, where his miner constituents dig Londonderry coal. Two years later Lord Londonderry exploded that the last Labor Cabinet headed by Scot MacDonald "is clinging like limpets to office . . . unfit to govern...
Woke you therein, and drew your breath...
Professor May, a dapper, blond, beak-nosed man in his middle thirties, signaled his assistant who drew a curtain behind the stage, revealing the massive control cabinets to which the robot was wired...