Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend who was responsible for the Friendship Train, Drew Pearson...
...Christmas drew near, the voices of carolers, not all of them blending harmoniously, were raised across the land. Office parties left a backwash of glasses and overflowing ash trays on desks and filing cabinets. In Boston, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sent out three wagonloads of oats, carrots and apples for the city's work horses. Sweet but harassed rich girls prepared to make holiday debuts at Atlanta's Piedmont Driving Club, San Francisco's Palace Hotel, Baltimore's Alcazar, and in many another big-city ballroom. Boise, Idaho, a city...
...brilliantly led Italian Communist Party stumbled? Partly because they had picked a phony strike issue. But principally because the Roman people drew upon their centuries-mellowed store of humor. They refused to play an audience role before a show that insulted their intelligence. They clambered into the wings, pulled the switches, snipped the ropes and brought the curtain tumbling on the Communist week of experiment...
...building, just watching-not in any official capacity, and unrecognized. But one partisan saw me, rushed out of line and up the steps to greet me. A little seven-year-old girl watched wide-eyed and decided that this was an important occasion that demanded formality. So she drew herself up very straight and gave me and the partisans a perfect Fascist salute...
Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank had stood his ground against his critics with all the solemn dignity of an elephant harried by terriers. But last week, the heel-nipping of London's press drew blood. So did their implications that Rank's General Cinema Finance Corp. Ltd., which produces Rank's pictures, was short of cash. Reluctantly Rank opened the books of G.C.F. and gave outsiders their first peek into his movie finances...