Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defendants were dismissed, leaving Maury to stand alone, his trial raged in a superheated courtroom. A defense witness accused Burkett of once saying he wanted to get rid of Maury. A feminine witness for the prosecution admitted having called Maury "a crumb." Maury's 14-year-old daughter drew a picture of a devil with a forked tail, labeled it "Gittinger" ("Buck" Gittinger, Shock's assistant). Judge Bryce Ferguson, "Ma" Ferguson's nephew, slumped down in his chair almost out of sight, looked up occasionally to quote from memory long passages of law. Defense Counsel Carl Wright...
Once more Justice Dineen adjourned the case. Safely down to earth again, the Black Eagle drew breath after his latest hairbreadth escape...
...then ascended a sacred platform, knelt before the benign, adipose image, prayed for divine guidance in drawing an answer from a set of specially prepared lots. As he was praying, the altar attendants, who were obviously in the pay of Japanese, stacked the lots, so that Marshal. Wu drew...
...months of the year young Ken Keltner, of Milwaukee, Wis., has a good job-playing third base for the Cleveland Indians. This year it paid him about $10,000. The season over, he has no visible means of support. A friend drew this fact to Ken Keltner's attention...
...years scrappy Eddie Shore, a defenseman of the Boston Bruins, has been the Big Blade of major-league hockey. His savage body-checking cost him all his teeth but brought him a salary of $15,000 a year, drew crowds to hockey games, eight times helped the Bruins climb to top ranking in their division of the league...