Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comply with the rule? Would it still bear its present name?" In Manhattan, Cartoonist Will Johnstone of the World Telegram made a picture of his tax payer playing golf dressed in a barrel, saying "Nobody objects to my shorts." In the New York Daily News, Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor drew a sketch called "A Thousand Welcomes," showing a newspaper artist bored with such topics as the Drought, Hitler and the Far East, examining with approval the figure of a female golfer wearing shorts...
That the House of Commons was indeed smoldering against Nazidom appeared when Sir John Simon, supporting Mr. Baldwin, drew rare cheers by this involved but venomous reference to Germany: "If His Majesty's Government are to be attacked [for our air program], if our critics are to be answered, let us do it in the good old-fashioned way, by argument and vote, and let us utterly repudiate the methods of gangsters...
...expect some deflation of the boom which started when the Government switched from free trade to protection?a switch which enabled British manufacturers to recover much business in the home market which they had lost to cut-rate foreign competitors. All last week Britain's professionally pessimistic press economists drew dire conclusions from President Runciman's mild assertion: "There are signs that the home market has reached the saturation point...
Almost exactly abreast as they spun into the turn after the first length of the pool, Olive McKean and Lenore Kight started back through the ruffled water for the final dash. As if a private current favored her, Miss McKean drew smoothly ahead in the last 25 meters, touched the wall a full three yards ahead. Later in the same afternoon, swimming with a precise cadence of 51 strokes per lap for 32 laps, Miss Kight consoled herself by winning the mile swim...
...Irvin, mellow, good-natured, immune to the deliberate insanity of the regular staff, drew the first New Yorker cover ("Mr. Eustace Tilley" in a high hat, high stock, with a monocle up to a butterfly), passes on every drawing the magazine uses, scanning some 1,000 pictures every Tuesday afternoon. Scale of prices to artists: $10 for a one-column spot without caption, $200 and up for a full page or cover...