Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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RAYMOND P. R. NEILSON, A. N. A. New York City Marcel Maurel, able young French artist and gallery-keeper of No. 689 Madison Avenue, Manhattan, drew the Lyautey cover...
...bill were two U. S. acts, many British. Juggler Rich Hayes (British) drew royal smiles. Blackfaces Alexander & Mose (British) caused Lady May Cambridge to titter. Xylophonist Teddie Brown (U. S.) realized his ambition of some years to play at a "command performance" and thus swell his British gate. But with a gobbet of chewing gum, Broadway's robustious Al Trahan stopped the show, rocked the Palladium with mighty mirth and convulsed the Royal Party...
...rail like mechanical rabbits, Sweep All moved up and passed Ladder. Twenty Grand saved his speed for the last half-mile. George Ellis who had brought a Negro jockey all the way from Baltimore so he could rub his head for luck, was up on Mate. He and Kurtsinger drew their whips at the same time coming into the straight. Mate was tired but Twenty Grand passed Sweep All and moved away so easily he was four lengths ahead at the finish with Mate in third place, three lengths behind Sweep...
...went down there!" they cried, pointing to a cellar door. Chief Russell drew his revolver, started downstairs. The squirrel, hiding just inside the cellar entrance, darted at the Chief, fastened itself on his trouser-leg. Believing at last, the policeman calmly kicked the animal to the bottom of the stairs. It sat there, blinking up at him. It must have rabies, he thought; he must not destroy its head, which the health authorities would want to examine. Carefully he aimed his service revolver, steadily fired, blew a hole through its shoulders. Then he went down and picked up the body...
...Lawrence's second novel to appear posthumously in the U. S. (the first: The Virgin and The Gipsy, TIME, Nov. 24) may not be his last word but it is a good place to stop. When published in Paris (1929) under the title of The Escaped Cock it drew words of high praise even from so belittling a Lawrence critic as John Middleton Murry. Devoutly orthodox Christians may find the story blasphemous (it will certainly be awarded a place on the Pope's Index Librorum Prohibitor urn) but regular Lawrence readers will doubtless take...