Word: drew
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Their chairman, Victor Alexander George Robert, second Earl of Lytton, first drew breath at Simla, the summer capital of British India, while his father was Viceroy 56 years ago. In 1925 lean, scholarly Lord Lytton was himself Viceroy of India for five months. He knows his East. Release of the Lytton Report last week stirred the deepest interest of both East and West. If the League of Nations, which sent out the Lytton Commission, now proceeds to accept its findings and back up its recommendations, the League, threatened today with financial bank- ruptcy (see p. 13), has a last chance...
Little World Series, In Minneapolis, Col. Ruppert's Newark Bears, pennant winners in the International League, drew even in the Little World Series by winning the fourth game, 5 to 2, against the Minneapolis Millers, American Association pennant winners. The day before, four trunks containing Bear uniforms and equipment were pushed off the Bears' train by one W. J. Chipman, who was riding illegally in the baggage car and said he needed more room...
...Japan's representative, Dr. Haruichi Nagaoka, who drew whispers of "ye-ah?" and derisive laughter several times during his plea that "floods, mud and storms at sea" have so delayed transmission of the Lytton Report on Japan's occupation of Manchuria that release and discussion of the Report by the Council must be long delayed. League presses were at that very moment printing the report for, as China's Dr. W. W. Yen scathingly observed, there happen to be such things as telegraphs, cables and radio...
...feed while any human was near. For five weeks Lord Grey tried to tame them. "Late on summer evenings when I could get the canvasbacks by themselves I knelt, leaning over the edge of the bank, throwing small pieces of bread. ... In this way, evening by evening, I drew them nearer till at length in the dusk one evening a young canvasback snatched a piece of bread from my fingers. Then the frost of suspicion and fear began to thaw. I continued my coaxing and in a few days three of the four young canvasbacks would come...
Four years after Phillips' death there began to appear serially his last & best novel. Susan Lenox-Her Full and Rise. A frank narrative of a prostitute's career, it drew the fire of John S. Suinner and his Society for the Suppression of Vice and made Author Phillips something of a posthumous hero. But to millions of U. S. minds mention of Susan Lenox today brings only the name of Greta Garbo, starred last year in a Hollywood-garbled version of the story...