Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conn., President of N. Y. & N. E. M. Corp. Mr. Barlow once invented a flying torpedo which according to his specifications, giant motors would drive 225 m. p. h. for 1,000 miles to discharge 500 Ib. of TNT. More practicable, less lethal was the plan Mr. Barlow lately drew up and presented to President Hoover for a system of private turnpikes linking all major U. S. cities. Last week Mr. Barlow assembled at his Stamford home his friends and supporters, outlined his plans for local cooperation on this, his latest scheme...
...drew a .38 calibre revolver; there were four reports. As the dentist fled into his office, one slug tore through his coat tail. The 65-year-old publisher was struck down, riddled three times, the last shot tearing into him as he lay on the ground...
...Manhattan last week Stern Bros. Department Store exhibited numerous Currier & Ives colored lithographs, found and also exhibited one of Currier & Ives original artists-Louis Maurer, 98. He went to work for Currier & Ives in 1850, drew on stone some of the famed "Life of a Fireman," "Life on the Plains" series. In 1884 he retired from the business of drawing and publishing colored prints. Today he collects seashells, plays the flute...
...Barrymore had "dressed" for the earth quake. The commander of a local U. S. Army post recruited him to boss a gang of men in reconstruction work. He wrote home a harrowing account of his experiences, asking for funds. When asked if he believed the story, his uncle John Drew said: "I believe every word of it. It took a convulsion of Nature to make him get up, and the U. S. Army to make him go to work." As his success grew, he took acting more seriously. He played Hamlet successfully in England in spite of unfavorable comment from...
...Most undergraduates do not know. To them their President is a vague figure who occasionally descends from his shadowy musnud to preside over chapel ceremonies. To the cinema-going layman he is a capped-&-gowned comedian. But Dean Max McConn of Lehigh University, in the current North American Review, drew a startlingly different picture, showing the college president as a harrowed executive plying "a dangerous trade," holding down "a man-killing...