Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...empty handed. He knocked me down and I got up and went at him again. This time he knocked me senseless. My secretary at the time, a powerful Englishman, heard me call, during the fight, and rushed to my aid. He grabbed Gillard and I came to. I then drew my gun and held it hanging down in my hand, because Gillard was even more powerful than my secretary, and was gradually getting the better of him. I came too near the scuffle and Gillard grabbed the gun. He couldn't pull it out of my hand, but swung...
Twenty-three gold star mothers, with large placards on their bus telling who they were, drew up at a St. Mihiel battle graveyard last week. As the ladies stepped out they were surprised to find eleven gentlemen standing at stiff military attention by the side of the road. Nothing had been said about an official welcome at the cemetery. Pleased nevertheless, the mothers smiled, nodded, beamed. The eleven gentlemen remained stern and straight for a moment, then removed their hats, bowed stiffly from the waist, entered automobiles, drove quickly away...
...part the Council works silently but effectively on the problems of trade and its encouragement, but once a year it holds an open Convention, invites all who would like to hear problems discussed, experiences narrated. Last week the 17th annual Foreign Trade Council convention was held in Los Angeles, drew 3,000 businessmen...
George Hughes, 41, a Negro, stood in the prisoners' box in the courthouse at Sherman, "Athens of Texas" (1920 population, 15,031), famed locally for its cultured, 95% white people, its two colleges, 27 churches, fine schools. He pleaded guilty to the charge of assaulting white Mrs. Drew Farlow, young farmer's wife. Outside in the square milled a crowd of Shermanites and thrillseekers from the environs. They knew that: 1) No matter what the prisoner said, Texas law requires a taking of testimony; 2) Mrs. Farlow, as a witness, was to be carried to the courthouse on a stretcher...
...theatrical capital of the country last week moved temporarily 90 mi. southwest. The Philadelphia Theatre Association produced Aristophanes' The Lysistrata in a manner which, as the news spread, drew pilgrims and pundits from miles around. The news said that Norman Bel Geddes had designed the set; that Gilbert Vivian Seldes had adapted the script; that Fay Bainter and Ernest Truex were in the cast; that nothing so racy, so robust, so surprising had happened for years, nor often since The Lysistrata had its premiere in Athens, 2,341 years...