Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...church, in front of all the island, to his love, Marama (Dorothy Lamour). He did not understand her nightmare a few nights later when she dreamt of a high wind and birds flying away. Its omen seemed to have no bearing on the six-months' jail sentence he drew on his next trip for hitting a white bully in a waterfront saloon...
...motor cars purred out of Vatican City one morning last week, crossed the Tiber and rolled through the streets of Rome without attracting any particular attention. When they drew up at the Church of St. John Lateran at the opposite side of the city, attendants lifted Pope Pius XI out of his car, into a sedan chair. The Holy Father had arrived to inspect and inaugurate one of the many new projects his busy mind continually hatches - an Ateneo Romano or Pontifical University, established in the vast church where, in 1929, Mussolini and Cardinal Gasparri signed the Lateran treaties between...
Last week the trailer Paulists reported to headquarters that they were doing well. Their first mass, in Cowan, Tenn., attracted only three people, but their second, in Tullahoma, drew 15. At Decherd, trucks brought curious and friendly Protestants to see St. Lucy. Children gaped and enjoyed the services. On a return trip to Cowan, 250 people attended a meeting and the mayor urged the Paulists: "Hurry back...
...Russell's trial made its Philadelphia debut at Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling's Baptist Temple, drew a crowd of 3,500. The jurists who presided were George A. Welsh of U. S. district court, Frank Smith of common pleas, Thomas Bluett of municipal court. As he does whenever possible, Dr. Russell played prosecuting attorney. Dr. Russell and his audience were content to have Alcohol defended by Dr. Virgil P. Brock, Dr. Russell's associate, an evangelist. Called by Dr. Russell "as strong a case as possible" for liquor. Dr. Brock's line was that everyone should...
...Francisco graft prosecutions 30-odd years ago; after a long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif. As a young man in Arizona, Heney undertook the case of a divorcing wife whose husband, hulking Dr. Christopher Handy, had threatened to shoot any lawyer who helped her; when they met. Heney drew faster than Handy, killed him. John, son of Christopher Handy, was last week a pallbearer to Judge Heney...