Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year Promoter Ritchie drew a nice full bucket with a book entitled The Pacific Northwest Goes to War; he charged businessmen $200 a page for eulogy, $50 apiece for a picture, then sold copies for $5. Last winter he set out to raise $100,000 for a statue to Negro soldiers of World War II. That time he had to back off from the tree with an empty pail-Seattle's Negroes complained that the project was not their idea and wanted nothing...
...Atlanta, Byron Nelson putted with mechanical magic up to 45 feet, chopped 13 strokes off par for a 72-hole total of 263, never drew a deep breath as he won the last (and his fourth straight) tourney of the winter circuit. The victory upped his 1945 earnings to $17,857, gave him an eight-to-six edge in tournaments won over capable but collapsible Sammy Snead...
Despite appearances, George Drew's government did not really fall; it was pushed. In power 19 months, its 37 members had managed to control the 90-seat House by grace of the Legislature's 16 Liberals. Then bumptious Liberal Leader Mitchell Frederick Hepburn had upset the applecart by teaming with teacherish Edward Bigelow ("Ted") Jolliffe and his 32 socialist CCFers...
...Grey North (TIME, Feb. 12); the CCF wanted no election now. Mitch Hepburn, who engineered the business, could grin at the defeat of one rival and the discomfiture of another, but there was little chance of the Liberals picking up many new seats. The man who beamed was George Drew. Now he could go to the people, contend that his opponents had sabotaged him, ask for a clear majority...
Dutch-born Piet Mondricm (1872-1944), pioneer of purest abstractionism, also felt fettered by objects. But where Kandinsky went off in a whirl, Mondrian painted straight, narrow paths. He finally became so ascetic that curves were too emotional for him, and he drew nothing but horizontal and vertical lines, convinced that the right angle was the purest "expression of the two opposing forces [which] constitute life." To the uninitiated, the result might look something like a linoleum pattern, but Mondrian spent days shifting colored Scotch tape around a canvas, hoping to achieve a perfect harmony of balanced rectangles...