Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirit, with enough bravura to match the elegance and color of the costuming and the traditional splendor of the deep-cut sets. Ruth Ford, a fetching Roxane, knows the coquette routine thoroughly, though at times she plays it over-precious. The supporting characters are without depth, as the playwright drew them, and beyond Hiram Sherman's foppish Ragineau, there was little opportunity for scene stealing...
...most ambitious of British cinema's popularity polls, sponsored by the Daily Mail, drew ballots from 547,767 of Britain's 30,000,000 cinemaddicts. Eligible for prizes: anything & anybody British appearing on the screen during the six war years. Prizes were "Silver Stars"-a slim silver figure on a globe, holding aloft a star. Winners & also-rans best known...
...people who walked quietly in the park last week remembered Vught, for many had spent months behind its electrified wire fence. They stopped walking and talking-but they did not stop remembering-when an automobile drew up and a dumpy old woman...
...Yutang, broke the news in Boston that she had been secretly married a fortnight to Richard Biow, 26, son of a prosperous Manhattan adman. In the couple's top-floor flat near the elevated and Boston's waterfront, Husband Biow told the press: "I guess what drew us together was-well, just our interest in each other." Said surprised Philosopher Lin (The Importance of Living) of his literary daughter (Our Family) : "She will come home after a short period-I have no doubt...
...Navy hosts lost their first contest this year to Columbia and will be further handicapped by the ancient shell they drew in the pre-match lottery. MIT's varsity eight that last week trailed Crimson and Cornell shells will today have the advantage of rowing in the newest middle boat...