Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like its rival, Sketch, the Toiler combined fiction and fun in its Christmas annual. Both magazines had colored centre spreads, Tatter's by Comic Artist Henry Mayo Bateman, who contributed "The Gigolo Who Refused to Dance"; Sketch's by the late Sporting Artist Cecil Aldin who drew a Dickensian "Christmas Coach Crossing Marlborough Downs." With art lovers, Sketch went one up by giving away a colored insert of "Ballet" by Dame Laura Knight, A. R. A. The London Sphere's Christmas annual featured the Victoria & Albert Museum's wax "Nativity," while the Illustrated London News...
...scandals, political intrigues, trips to Spain, Italy, Switzerland. She was less impressed than John Adams' grandson by many of the famed figures they met. Adams, for instance, described the English poet Richard Monckton Milnes as a gifted eccentric "with a Falstaffian mask and laugh of Silenus." But Clover drew an unforgettable sketch: "As for Milnes, he shows little of the ideal poet. He is old and stout, very scrubbily dressed, his teeth vanish down his throat when he giggles, which is very often, and then, by a most interesting tour de force, he reinstates them; and his method...
Thus the counterpart of the event which drew some 80 parents from all over the country to live in Lowell House for three days, will not be duplicated until 1938 at the earliest...
...Rapped on the galvanized iron side of an unemployed workers' school hut and drew a laugh by asking the men with the mock roar of an Army sergeant, "ANY COMPLAINTS...
...sense of false security quite out of keeping with the spirit abroad in the world today. For it takes a tremendous force to rouse Harvard men to the core, and thrills such as the trumpet call of the Further War Veterans and the more serious mood which drew men to the Teacher's Oath hearing only show that Harvard's own toes must be trod on before screams will issue forth from the student body. In many respects it is in the tendency to mind their own business and not concern themselves with the affairs of others that Harvard...