Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a defense attorney insinuated that her opium-smoking husband had been intimate with one of her girls, Madam Arnold drew herself up, cried: "I am my husband's wife and his girl friend...
...rehabilitated Berkey & Gay's first showing last fortnight went more than 700 furniture buyers, nearly three times as many as Grand Rapids drew last year, seven times as many as in 1934. Once indifferent to functionalism, Berkey & Gay had recognized the market for modern stuff (27% of all furniture sold last year) by adding to its period reproductions a line of moderns in "softer form, with sweeping rather than boxlike lines." Promoter McKay, now Berkey & Gay's board chairman, became a hero to Grand Rapids. Enough orders were placed to keep his newly-employed workmen busy for five...
...four sons of the late King George V standing guard around his catafalque in the ancient barn of West minster Hall. The artist was chiefly proud of having sketched it so discreetly on his shirt cuffs that no mourner was offended. The high-collared oldster Frank Owens Salisbury drew the greatest crowds with his official portrait of King George at the Silver Jubilee services in St. Paul's last year. He loyally entitled this commonplace job The Heart of the Empire. Others portrayed King George riding, the Duke of York, the Duchess of York, their two little princesses...
...side-splitting vulgarity of "Our Boarding House" belonged to the same school as the wry "Indoor Sports" which famed, one-handed Thomas Aloysius ("Tad") Dorgan drew for King Features for 22 years. When Dorgan died in 1929 King Features spotted Ahern as his possible successor. By 1934 they were talking it over with the cartoonist. By last July N. E. A.'s spectacled, able President Frederick S. Ferguson was quietly preparing to carry on without Ahern the daily and Sunday doings of Hoople & Co., which legally belong not to the cartoonist but to the syndicate. Reported inducements which...
...Annie Porter, McGill University zoologists, came upon a Quebec "family of little women" none of whom was more than four and a half feet tall. They were all well-proportioned, strong, vigorous and promiscuous. For cohabitants they invariably selected little men by whom they bred little children. This family drew a report in last week's Eugenical News...