Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make a vigorous protest. Mr. Hull was in a tight place. He could not admit that a U. S. Government official had said such things without offering Germany an open diplomatic insult. Nor could he give Germany customary satisfaction, by dismissing the New Deal's Samson. So he drew himself up and with the best grace possible, took refuge in the quibble which General Johnson had provided: the General had been speaking as an individual...
...Oklahoma last week were 15 assorted Democrats who wanted to be the State's next Governor.* Primary voting had hardly started before three candidates drew away from the rest of the field...
Bardstown believes that Stephen Foster drew inspiration for famed "My Old Kentucky Home" from "Federal Hill." Some Kentuckians further claim he actually composed it on the spot, during a visit in 1852. John Tasker Howard, Foster's latest, most authoritative biographer (Stephen Foster, America's Troubadour: TIME, Jan. 22, 1933) doubts the story. He thinks it unlikely that Stephen Foster visited Bardstown later than the 1840's, points out that the original title of the song was "Poor Uncle Tom, Good Night," that "Uncle Tom" was the song's hero, not ''My Old Kentucky...
Finally, as the week drew to a close, the whole convention sulked with a plain case of hurt feelings. Pedagogs patted their palms as Secretary Robert C. Moore of the Illinois State Teachers Association blurted out their grievance: "Our meek attitude and mild resolutions must cease. It is all too clear that we have little recognition as a power. We determined to come to Washington in the heat, thinking it probable that the President of the United States would like to address us. We have sweated and we have sweltered but not one single personal or official word has come...
...International, Second Edition cost $1,300,000 to prepare. Prices range from $20 to $35. Because there are some 3,000,000 words in the English language, the editors could not hope to include every one. They defined croon and croon song, drew the line at crooner...