Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in the Greenwich Village Italian colony 37 years ago, Anthony Sisti began to draw early, though he says his cafe-keeping father never drew anything but beer from a tap. He began to box in 1917 at a Buffalo, N.Y. gym, and the next year won the amateur bantamweight championship of New York State. From then until 1930 he fought 100 professional bouts, lost 15, earned enough to go to Europe for five years and enough while there to pay tuition at the Florence Academy, where he got his doctor's degree in painting...
...name, since the "natural inference" that the Group is related to the University "is not justified by the facts." Finally, without making it public, the University's governing body lodged a protest with the Board of Trade-which announced that all the protests were being considered. Dr. Buchman drew his neck in again, said nothing...
Freshman List lunged, drew blood. Freshman Deaton also lunged, with the same result. Having satisfied their honor, Freshmen List and Deaton shook hands, stalked off. Said Blue Ridge's President Lynn H. Harris later: "I am sorry the story got out." Said Freshman List, haughtily: "I am a gentleman. I abide by the code duello. I refuse to discuss the identity of the lady and I refuse to discuss the duel...
...Basketball drew more spectators (90,000,000) last year than any other U. S. sport; softball attracted 72,000,000, baseball 60,000,000, football...
Just before he died in 1827 he drew a sketch of his wife, who always called him "Mr. Blake." Dying, according to Mrs. Blake, "he began to sing Hallelujahs and songs of joy and triumph, loudly and with ecstatic energy. His bursts of gladness made the walls resound...