Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unhappily, no boat drew near Captain Raabe that night. There was nothing but howling wind and rushing water. Blinded, he was unable to light his running lights. He ran afoul something in the dark. The Spindrift began to ship water . . . not until well on in the next day, after a night of horror, did the storm abate and his sight return sufficiently to see where he was- caught in a fish trap...
...natives unwittingly, drank up all the beer and asked so many questions that General Fournier found it impossible to concentrate. The air of Ajaccio, the air that fed the genius of the young Napoleon, gave General Fournier an idea or two. He ordered two gross of tricolored arm bands, drew up the 200 reporters in the public square last week, gave each one a rifle and sent them, happy as schoolboys, to hunt bandits in the woods by themselves and not bother him any more...
...Author Stevenson's birthday (Nov. 13). Reason: In 1891 her father, General Henry C. Ide, U. S. Land Commissioner in Samoa, told his friend Stevenson that small Daughter Annie always felt grieved because she had no real birthday: hers fell on Dec. 25. Straightway kind Author Stevenson drew up, signed and had witnessed a deed: ". . . In consideration that Miss Annie L. Ide . . . was born out of all reason on Christmas Day . . . that I ... have attained the age when 0, we never mention it, and that I have now no further use for a birthday of any description . . . that...
...last week's dinner, Jackie Cooper fell asleep on the bosom of Cinemactress Dressier. Director King Vidor drew a checkerboard on the tablecloth, played lump-sugar checkers with Cinemactress Eleanor Boardman (Mrs. King Vidor), beat her. Remarks...
Quoted first in the Princeton Alumni Weekly, then in the New York Times, the Perry article drew a reply last week. To the Times wrote one William Henry, undergraduate...