Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dublin, President Eamon de Valera mailed a secret answer to the secret British note he received last month and drew a second secret British note. This game of whispering behind the public's back (due to British refusal to allow publicity) could of course go on forever. But President de Valera bluntly announced that when the Free State Parliament meets April 20 he will introduce "a short amendment, only about 100 words long" to wipe the oath of fealty to the King out of the Free State Constitution...
...Museum by Miss Ellen Bullard of Boston, and is the only one of the group in the country. The rest of the Liber Studiorum are in the National Gallery in London. This group of paintings was probably produced by Turner to rival Claude Lorrain, the famous French artist who drew the Liber Veritatis group...
Goethe. Only ultra-squeamish Goethe admirers belittle the major fact that from early youth to ripe old age Goethe drew what he called his inspiration from a series of women, very few of whom were intellectual and only one of whom he married (17 years after their child was born). Eleven of Goethe's women are named by the Encyclopedia Britannica which emphasizes that he had many another. Last week, addressing young U. S. females at Barnard College, Professor Wilhelm Braun cried: "The charm of Goethe's matchless personality is explained not by the universality of his genius...
...fourth day the skies cleared. Across the width of Goose Island the three men wriggled on their stomachs, waited uncomfortable hours within sight of some big, flat rocks. Finally, out of the water clambered a single big bull seal, settled himself oleaginously upon a rock. Flyer Petre drew bead, fired straight & true. The seal shivered, shook, flipped, flopped, floundered to the edge of the rock, plunked into the water with a permanent plop. The three huntsmen grappled for him, but grappled in vain. Sadly they set sail for Manhasset to wait another year...
...Brooklyn, three men in an automobile drew up beside John Vaccaro. "Have you got a match?" they asked. When John Vaccaro said "No," they leaped out, knocked him down, kicked him about the sidewalk, shot him in the hand. An hour later, Samuel Saulkind, waiting for a street car, was asked, "Have you got a match?" "No," he said. Whereat the trio fell upon Samuel Saulkind, kicked him about the sidewalk, fractured his skull. Approaching Frank Thornton on his way home, the three autoists queried, "Have you got a match?" When he replied "No," they belabored him grievously, left...