Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Katherine Dunham, Negro ballerina, drew attention to the fact that in her Tropical Revue she wears a pearl in her navel instead of a diamond-because Gypsy Rose Lee had copied the diamond...
Poet Untermeyer's lyrics drew an editorial from the New York Herald Tribune, which noted that he had telescoped the hymn's "the great Lenin lighted our path; Stalin reared us faithful to the people," to a simple "Lenin and Stalin have lighted the way." Quipped the Tribune: "In Russia, a land of nice dialectical distinctions, poets have been shot for less...
Laboring over the cruel mountain "Hump Route" from India, a U.S. transport plane drew near its China base with 5,000 precious pounds of mail from home. The pilot, Lieut. Roy Thomas, noticed a scudding cloud ahead. Then...
...home, football is the fall sport. The eight-team Pyramid League drew more than 100.000 spectators. League leaders were the undefeated Rebels, composed mainly of former Texas college stars, who trounced the R.A.F. last week At first, the R.A.F. thought footbalL was a sissy game. Pointing to padless rugby, they laughed at shoulder and hip pads offered by the Rebels. After the first practices, half the squad admitted their misjudgment, accepted the Rebels' offer. The other half was in the hospital...
...just 21 years this week since James ("Schnozzle") Durante, one of history's great clowns, first drew attention to his fine, foaming gifts at the old Club Durant off Broadway. In recent times he has had somewhat less than appreciative handling in Hollywood. But the past year has been one of his best...