Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What drew President Hoover to Porto Rico was the chronic economic distress of that square little island as a result of the 1928 hurricane. The big Hoover heart had been touched by Governor Theodore Roosevelt's description of the subnormal condition of Porto Rico's children. The second Chief Executive to visit the territory (the elder Roosevelt was there in 1906), President Hoover wanted to see things for himself, study rehabilitation...
...time the Pierian Sodality enjoyed a reputation for excellence which drew men interested in orchestral work from all parts of the country. Today however the organization's standards are in no way comparable to those formerly maintained...
...little chairman, John Jacob Raskob. A foreknowledge that he, a Wet, would bring up Prohibition as a party matter had provoked preliminary wails of warning from Southern Drys, which helped only to advertise the gathering. The certain prospect of the kind of intraparty fight that only Democrats can stage drew throngs of spectators to the assembly. Senators, Representatives, National Committee members milled about in open anxiety. From the wall fell the stern gaze of Thomas Jefferson...
...drinkers at the party to pick out the man who is paying the bills and prevent mistaking him for the butler. The latter advantage is not important, because the butler may usually be recognized by his expression of concentrated intelligence, and is nearly always sober." Mr. Brisbane then drew a line under this sally and began anew: "Herbert [Bayard] Swope had this 'host-coat' idea long ago, wearing an evening suit of beautiful claret-colored damask. Why, no one knew. In his house there can't be any mistake about the host. And the butler had nothing...
...message concerning Malta which originally read in part, "priests have been accused of violating their sacred vows," once reached the late Lord Curzon in garbled form. For a moment his eye rested upon the words "sacred cows." Without a smile, he drew out his sharp-pointed pencil and annotated the message: "Clearly a case for a Papal bull...