Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife. "Now we have a Mayor of New York!" exclaimed delighted Inquisitor Seabury, who had whipped together the Fusion Party which turned bumbling Mayor John Patrick O'Brien out of office, turned Tammany upside down. To celebrate this deed, the Evening Post's Cartoonist Sebastian Robles drew a caricature of grinning Mayor LaGuardia which, when inverted, reveals the prognathous face of ex-Mayor O'Brien. In taking charge of the nation's greatest city, Mayor LaGuardia promised a mighty program of reforms ranging from slum eradication to making Staten Island a free port...
Pleased with this simile, "Papa" Kalinin rambled on, drew deafening cheers with an announcement that when Russia's largest "chemical city" is shortly completed he will rename the place Stalinogorsk-this making the 15th Soviet city to be named after Stalin, not to mention mountain peaks and islands...
...whole situation can be thoroughly discussed ... to determine which part if any [of the obligations] is legal." He declared that the $62,000,000 principal of the loans was secured by special taxes from which the regime of ousted Tyrant Machado collected $120,000,000. From this Secretary Despaigne drew the conclusion: "Figures don't lie and therefore the Cuban people have paid their debt over & over again...
...private dinner in Havana Mr. Caffery saw President Grau's inquisitive, narrow face, Generalissimo Fulgencio Batista's flat, boisterous visage. Warily the three drew together. Next night Mr. Caffery went to the Palace for dinner. He told newshawks afterward that neither he nor President Grau had mentioned U. S. recognition. When President Roosevelt's non-intervention speech was published several days later, Generalissimo Batista tried his hand at a little fulsome diplomacy: "I always knew Roosevelt's policy was based on the solid, ample force of the great, free American people, which respects the rights...
Elmer Eveland, one of the children, was always climbing fences. So Frank Lawton Hopler, a laundryman around the Sunshine Home, drew the blunt edge of a knife across Elmer's throat. That scared little Elmer off fences...