Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school in England. When he was 13 he went back to Helena, attended high school there. One night he was smashed up in an automobile accident and for two years after that his father made him stay on the family ranch. When he got out of Grinnell College he drew cartoons for a Helena newspaper. He went to Los Angeles to be a commercial artist, began to hang around the offices of casting directors. He got parts in a few westerns and after a while his height and his handsome, inexpressive face induced directors to let him try straight roles...
Effects. The city was threatened with the closing of schools where even unpaid teachers could not work without heat. Provision merchants talked of cutting off the supply of food to the county's charitable institutions unless back bills were paid. Civil employes drew on their small savings, borrowed on their property, went to moneylenders for cash at 10% interest per month. The police department announced that it would take no steps to compel its men to repay such usurers. City and county paymasters pondered the idea of paying off employes with the tax warrants, which the banks would cash only...
...Many in the audience reflected that he alone of all great male opera singers has the grace desirable for so fanciful a part. Others, however, wished that he could have achieved more of the heroic, legendary dimensions suggested by the role. Soprano Editha Fleischer sang sensuously. Conductor Tullio Serafin drew out of his orchestra all the scintillating tonality which the composer could have desired of the score...
...granted to His Majesty by Pope Pius XI. The Holy Father listened perhaps to amorous pleadings and arguments by the world's only Bachelor Tsar. But last week the bet was definitely lost. Ruefully at Sofia, His Excellency the Italian Minister?not a sure- thing better after all?drew his check for 50,000 drachma and sent it round to the Greek Legation...
...reach the final bracket in the National Women's Singles as well as in the mixed doubles. Steady team work with occasional bursts of brilliant play has been largely responsible for the success of the young players. Their first matches were won with little difficulty but their later contests drew from them a quality of play superior to that shown in the earlier part of the tournament...