Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Several witnesses last week heard and saw what happened. A man with a pistol coolly fired three shots at close range, next grappled Dmitri Navachine, drove home four blows with a long thin knife, and nimbly escaped as Paris passers-by rushed to help the stricken man but only drew to themselves the snarling attentions of his two big dogs. These faithful beasts stood guard over their stricken master as he lay weltering in a dark puddle of mud and blood, died before any human could reach...
...Peiping, the public execution of five opium peddlers last week drew 50,000 spectators. Justifying in Washington the death penalty for dopes in China, Dr. C. S. Mei, director of the largest antiopium hospital in Shanghai, observed that an addict must be cured both physiologically and psychologically. "It takes too long a time and plenty of money," said Dr. Mei philosophically. "It is from this fact that you get the reasoning of the Chinese Government and its application of capital punishment. . . . It is China's only hope of saving the nation from the dope menace...
...West Side Chicago plant, is second only to Mills Novelty Co. in annual business. Into the development of "1937 World Series," Rockola put $250,000, paid $5,000 more last week for the personal appearance and blessing of Pitcher Dizzy Dean. Popular with "World Series" players, gamboling Dizzy Dean drew catcalls at the Association's annual banquet when he devoted two out of three minutes of his speech to plugging Rock...
...laugh on the wrong side of his face. Divorce in those days was social suicide, but discreet affairs were the rule. Elinor, though tempted, does not admit that she ever fell. Instead she took to writing, turned many a might-have-been into the wishfulfillment of words. "I drew, out of my vivid imagination, material to satisfy my own unfulfilled longing for romantic love." Her first novel, The Visits of Elizabeth, came out as a newspaper serial, made such a hit that it was published as a book. A love-starved public called for more. By 1917 a popular edition...
...Orleans, Seymour Weiss, onetime Huey Long henchman, drew $92,390 from an oil outfit called Win Or Lose Corp...