Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disillusioned war bride, 40-year-old Mrs. Hermine Dent, British Guiana-born wife of a Canadian Army sergeant. She had been ready to make concessions, she said at her Timmons, Ont. home. She had tolerated: 1) filthy towns, 2) unsociable people, 3) unsavory food, 4) dreary houses. But she drew the line at the cold. Now she was quitting Canada and Husband Dent to go back to balmy Guiana. Asked a newsman: "Don't you like anything about Canada?" Said Mrs. Dent...
...pricked up their ears. Ever since Lord Selkirk and his band of British crofters had sailed across Hudson Bay in 1814 and then portaged to the rich Red River Valley, agriculture has been king in Manitoba. The valley's rich, black velvety soil had been the magnet which drew colonists. They hugged the area close to the U.S. border, grew Canada's best grade wheat (No. 1 Manitoba Northern Hard) and other grains in enormous quantities...
Died. Marlin Hurt, 40, tall, dark & handsome radio actor whose falsetto portrayal of Beulah, the cackling, philosophizing Negro maid of Fibber McGee & Molly, was so convincing that it once drew a proposal of marriage; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
Married. George Longan Arnold, 24, law-student son of sardonic Trustbuster Thurman Wesley Arnold; and Ellen Cameron Pearson, 19, daughter of gossipy Washington Columnist Drew Pearson, granddaughter of vituperative Washington Publisher Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson; in Georgetown...
...fire developing around a radiator in Sever 4 Wednesday drew a lunchtime crowd of 500 students who watched 11 Cambridge fire department vehicles and 30 firemen smother the small blaze. The fire was listed as of "undetermined origin" and damage was estimated at around $35. Before the situation was under control, heat from the conflagration and set off one automatic sprinkler in the basement below...