Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because the lake floods the edge of their 5,400-acre estate at Hahatonka, near the damsite. Onetime Senator James Reed, the plaintiffs' attorney, declared at Jefferson City that Hahatonka "was one of the wonder spots of the world." Its "castle," lake and sparkling, spring-fed trout-stream drew visitors from all over the world. Mountain-whittling Gutzon Borglum promised to testify for the Snyders that he "would have given $1,000,000 for the estate" before the dammed waters started to rise, "would not have it at any price now." Meanwhile Union Electric Light & Power...
...Przystas, 15, another newsboy but not a Floyd's Clubber. With Longin as their guide, a delegation of three members-Stanley Orlenski, 14, Joe Sawicki, 14, and Anthony Mazur, 14-set out for vengeance. They found Joe Przystas at home carrying a scuttle of coal upstairs. Stanley drew a rifle from his trouser leg, fired at the coal scuttle to frighten Joe. The bullet drilled Joe's heart, killed...
...announcement drew attention to the fact that publication of lottery information-of final awards as well as advance publicity-made a newspaper non-mailable by Federal statute ; that violation incurred a penalty of $1,000 fine or two years imprisonment. Having reminded the Press of the law, the Post Office said confidently, "It is not believed that hereafter newspapers will desire to publish the matter the statute forbids . . ." (TIME, June...
...series of etchings of the life of Christ he made about 1910. Few of them recalled that he was a violent Jew-baiter, that during the days of the Dreyfus case he helped found the anti-Semitic paper Psst. He was little remembered for the vicious propaganda pictures he drew during the Franco-German and World Wars. In New York last week the Caz-Delbo Galleries had an important showing of his paintings and water colors under the auspices of the French Government. At the Knoedler Galleries was a special exhibition of Forain's etchings and lithographs...
...Massachusetts; Monsieur Senneville Commander of his Most Christian Majesty's Squadron at Boston and other officers of the fleet." In 1824 the Harvard Chapter was host to Lafayette. The orator of that year, Edward Everett, closed with "an address to La Fayette exceeding anything we have heard, and drew tears from almost every eye"; and to the gracious toast of Judge Story, who presided afterward at the dinner: "Our most distinguished guest La Fayette--He reads his history in a nation's eyes", the famous guest replied with equal grace and spirit; "This Antient University: this Literary Society. This Holy...