Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unseated. The crowd gasped as the favorite was nearly knocked to his knees. Another horse caromed into Bold Venture. Trailing the field, Hanford steadied him, worked up to eighth place at the quarter-mile, maneuvered Bold Venture into the lead at the half-mile. At the mile Brevity drew up alongside. The horses' necks bobbed and stretched in uni son down the stretch. But Hanford man aged to keep Bold Venture's head in front as they clipped under the wire...
...HOOPLE!" Nearby, N. E. A.'s Hearstian arch-rival shrieked back in big black letters: "KING FEATURES- WITH THE ONE & ONLY GENE AHERN!" Purpose of the mammoth cocktail party whither this banner beckoned was to notify the trade that Cartoonist Gene Ahern, who originated and for 15 years drew famed Major Hoople of "Our Boarding House" for N. E. A., was henceforth to draw for King Features a new character called Judge Puffle, in a new feature called "Room & Board...
There followed one minute of devotional silence. Then Representative Guyer, onetime high-school principal, onetime judge, onetime mayor of Kansas City, Kans., presented the Republican tribute to the dead. He quoted Felicia Hemans, Tennyson, Shakespeare (twice), Joseph Addison, William Cullen Bryant, William Winter. He drew on three foreign tongues: from Dante, Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate; from Bishop Jean Baptiste Massillon's funeral oration over Louis Quatorze, Dieu seul est grand; from a "lucid saying" of the Romans, Sic transit gloria mundi. Two he translated for the benefit of his less cultured colleagues...
...Michelson's Republican competitor, GOPressagent Theodore Huntley, Columnists Drew Pearson & Robert Allen last week told an astonishing tale which Washington accepted is true in spirit, if not in fact. Greeting at his office Malcolm W. (''Bing!") Bingay, who left the Detroit news five years ago to edit he Detroit Free Press, Mr. Huntley said: "How do you do, Mr. Bingay-how are you and how's the Detroit News?" Editor Bingay's Free Press has for several years conducted a running Ight with Radiorator Charles Edward Coughlin. but Pressagent Huntley's next conversational ambit...
Able defense lawyers worked hard last week to show that the pledges mentioned by Mr. Cooper were not binding on the member banks. From Banker McCain they drew admissions that at the time he gave his assurances to Mr. Cooper and the Federal Comptroller he had consulted only a few of the banks. There was no explicit agreement with them to supply money for Harriman deficits. Moreover, Banker McCain knew he had no authority to guarantee the bank deposits on their behalf...