Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night he bedded in Omaha's Fontenelle Hotel. By the time he woke his bag of speeches had been found and had caught up with him. At breakfast with 1,000 Nebraska and Iowa Republicans, he got a laugh as he squirmed to his feet, and said: "I drew a leg at this table. I always seem to draw a leg at every table that I sit at." Back aboard the David Livingstone he made 16 rear-platform appearances while crossing Iowa and Illinois. At Council Bluffs, he lost his Masonic ring while trying to shake a hundred upstretched...
...excellent host to woman diplomats was given last month when U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark and Iceland Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen married a Danish subject, Kammer-junker (Gentleman-in-Waiting) Captain Boerge Rohde (TIME, July 20). On this attractive recommendation, Denmark last week drew a second woman minister when Mexico transferred its Señorita Palma Guillen from Colombia to Denmark...
France, now thoroughly alarmed, pulled every possible wire to keep Spain's fire from spreading. The Quai d'Orsay hastily drew up a strict agreement of neutrality, sent it to Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Russia, Portugal, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, The Netherlands. Italy, Russia and Germany hedged elaborately. But with anxious Britain backing France, the neutrality agreement was perfunctorily accepted "in principle" by almost every European State...
...permitted 15 minutes of private Adoration of the Sacrament. To a Catholic, the ineffable privilege of kneeling alone near the Consecrated Host- usually impossible in a crowded city church-is equivalent to kneeling alone close to God. Men of Malvern, prizing the still hours of early morning, last week drew lots for their turns to enter the chapel, emerge exalted and spiritually cleansed...
...pearl-encrusted fan, 50 silk handkerchiefs, a quart of rye whiskey, dozens of photographs, a gold safety pin which once secured the diapers of Baby Doe's daughter Rose Mary Echo Silver Dollar Tabor. A silver dollar made into a locket containing Silver Dollar Tabor's picture drew the highest bid: $26. Finally, the auctioneer hoisted a pair of long red flannels which Baby Doe wore for years before she died. "Here is your opportunity, girls! Winter is coming!" he bawled. A Denver housewife bought them...