Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belief. When Chicago newspapers gleefully gave him free advertising by describing how a $10 bill would buy a $3 license, a $5 medical examination, and a $2 Mandell ceremony complete with phonograph music and a flowery certificate, authorities sharply cautioned Mr. Mandell against making any such combination offer, drew from Lawyer Mandell an indignant denial that he had done so. Only assurance Chicago had that Justice of the Peace Mandell would not be followed into the city by his 150 or so suburban colleagues was that by week's end he had garnered only four couples...
Young Henri drew pictures almost as soon as he could read, but at the age of 14 he broke a leg. The fracture was never properly set and a year later his other leg was broken too. Toulouse-Lautrec became a dwarf, shortsighted, blubber-lipped, with a normal trunk and tiny, shriveled limbs. Only 4 ft. 6 in. high, he could not lift an ordinary suitcase off the ground, had special sausage-shaped luggage designed for him. Fortunately, although his aristocratic family could not stand the sight of him, they kept him well supplied with cash...
...heavy favorite to whip Harvard, which had been beaten by Dartmouth and Army. The equalizing factor was that Harvard had beaten Princeton, and the only thing Harvard would rather do than beat Yale or Princeton is beat them both. It had not done so since 1915. Harvard drew first blood in the second quarter when Ray Daughters caught a forward pass and shook off two Yale tacklers, scored. In the next quarter Yale got moving, and the great Frank bounced off the Yale line to tie the score. But with seven minutes to play, Harvard's Francis Foley faked...
Total number of participants in the six House sports was 777, more than 300 more than in the year 1933-34, the previous record. Fall track, an innovation in the intra-mural program, drew 56 men, which more than compensated for the number engaged in House rowing...
...over the sidewalk. Something snapped in his brain. He liked pulling this leaf from this bush. He pulled another and another until he had a palmful. He resumed walking, putting one leaf in his month. The taste pleased him. He chewed on it for a while, ejected it, then drew another from his hand...