Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glee Club, just back from its first Spring trip since ODT clamped down in '43, drew 140 people this term, and filled out a schedule of local concerts and yearly appearances with the Boston Symphony during...
...believed in you when we were younger, Harvard, and we inwardly drew back as we were pushed into the traffic of the world. But we had to go: and perhaps one of the questions you had taught us to ask we secretly wanted to ask you, the very fountainhead. You had told us that to understand knowledge would show us The Way more certainly than a flash of faith: but wasn't it faith that drew us to you? Your science had justified to us the conviction of Christ and of our own country's founders that our fellow...
...Hunt Stromberg. She sued to cancel, but Stromberg brought to court a letter he thought proved that he and she were on fine terms. The letter opened "Dear Daddy S.," and informed him she had the measles. "They wanted to take pictures of my spots," she wrote, "but I drew the line. After all!" Signed: "The Spotted Body...
...churchmen, Bishop Manning seems only a split hair's breadth this side of Rome. He campaigned to change (he might say "restore") the Church's name from Protestant Episcopal to "Catholic & Apostolic," drew many an ecclesiastical brickbat for declaring in 1930: "The conception of the ministry held by the Protestant Churches is in important respects different from that held by the Episcopal Church. The Episcopal Church holds the Catholic doctrine of the priesthood. . . . The unbroken order of the episcopate coming down to us from apostolic times is the visible, living witness of God's coming into this...
Last week Al Capp, whose funny-paper characters are busy just being funny, returned to his sharp satire on Gould, Tracy & Co. It began in 600-odd newspapers as suddenly as his casual lampooning of Orson Welles, Gone Wif the Wind, Frank Sinatra, Sewell Avery and Drew Pearson, with a scrawled appeal from hillbilly Li'l Abner Yokum (pattern: early Henry Fonda) to Cartoonist "Lester Gooch...