Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic excitement, was the Mayflower's star boarder-Vice President Charles Curtis. When he moved into his eleven-room $150-per-day suite (which costs him $5.53 per day) he was the hotel's prize social attraction. Once his vice-presidential progress through the lobby turned heads, drew crowds. Now, as the Vice President-reject, he passed quietly out of a side entrance without fluttering the slightest public interest...
...through an exchange of formal letters which Berlin wits dubbed "the game of questions & answers." With each exchange it became clearer that the President, though he had commissioned Fascist Hitler to try to form a Cabinet with a parliamentary majority, was not anxious that he should succeed. Herr Hitler drew from Old Paul what amounted to a stipulation that the President would not appoint him Chancellor unless he could obtain a "safe majority" in the Reichstag for a Cabinet pledged to continue all the policies of the hated von Papen "Cabinet of Monocles...
Abruptly he drew his Spanish service pistol, shot the Governor General dead and ran off into the jungle...
...into the morasses of European diplomacy and politics still uppermost in their memories, the American people were taken with a fever of isolationism. They shrank quite excusably from any agreement that might result in more bloodshed for themselves or for their sons. Later interpretation, especially from the British government, drew the offending claws from the Government, but the question of sanctions is still paramount in the world's attempt to keep the peace. In selecting this problem for discussion the Model-League of Nations showed itself awake to the real perplexities of international statesmanship...
...Sheldon, Mo., Mrs. Marvin Garrett drew 1,000 gal. of gasoline from her water well, found that it had leaked from a filling station tank down the street...