Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time he left New York University (where in 1906 he wrote an undergraduate musicomedy called the Isle of Skidoo) and when he went to the World, Deems Taylor tried a dozen jobs. He read proof for the Nelson Encyclopedia, rose to write it articles on handball and pins, drew colored plates of U. S. flags. He went into the commercial art business, finished up a year with a net loss of $17. Then he edited an electrical magazine, went to France on $700 as a self-appointed War correspondent. He got his job on the World through his friend Colyumist...
...Chicago performance of Scarlet Sister Mary a member of the mob scene was John Drew ("Jacky") Colt, 17, son of the play's leading actress, Ethel Barrymore, nephew of Actors John and Lionel Barrymore, grandnephew of famed John Drew. Stagestruck, he had quit school. Following a three-generation tradition in the Barrymore family regarding debuts, he carried onto the stage a red apple sent by his Uncle John...
...obtaining a production agreement among the sugar producers of all the world. Long and laborious have been his efforts (TIME, Aug. 18 et seq.). At a conference in Amsterdam he accomplished the difficult task of convincing the men who control the huge East Indian sugar crop. In Brussels he drew an agreement from the beet sugar growers of Europe although all were frightened by the bogey of "Russian dumping," a bogey which made cooperation seem futile. Then he saw his plan verge on failure when the German delegation marched stubbornly back to Berlin. In Paris last month he was told...
...about 12, a pagan Roman, Sempronius, insisted she marry his pagan son and renounce Christianity. She refused. Where upon Sempronius ordered her outraged. Miraculously she preserved her virginity. Then Sempronius ordered her burned at the stake. The fagots would not ignite. Thereupon the officer commanding her captors drew his sword and brutally sliced her head from her shoulders. This happened Jan. 21, 304, in the reign of Diocletian...
...board meeting in Brussels of Belgium's potent Floreffe Chemical Products Corp. last week, Director Bernard Lauby was deprived of his directorate, promptly drew a pistol, shot one of the directors dead, wounded another, wounded himself...