Word: drews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noon one day last week President Hoover walked solemnly from the Cabinet Room through the short passage to his own office. Behind him came a small procession of House and Senate leaders. The President seated himself at his broad desk, hitched his chair closer, reached out and drew to him a document labeled...
Born in Dominica, West Indies, a charwoman's son, Artist Joseph was adopted by his foster-parents at the age of one. He stayed in the West Indies for eleven years. From an early age he drew, told other children what was wrong with their drawings, bought penny crayons. At eleven he was taken to Manhattan, where he attended a public grammar school. His drawing teacher encouraged him to continue at Stuyvesant High School, where Dr. Henry E. Fritz conducts special Saturday drawing classes and arranges an annual Metropolitan exhibit for the 30 most talented children (15 boys, 15 girls...
...form the Caroline Miller Parker collection in the Harvard Library. Mr. Parker's gift includes a fund of $5000 to assure the permanent well-being of these treasures, and he has also recently made a number of most important additions, among which is a sketch book in which Crane drew the view of the river front where the Freshman Dormitories now stand, from the opposite shore, not far from the School of Business Administration, which is reproduced here for the first time...
...Majesty King George is everybody's King ! And the first words all those listening throughout the Empire would wish me to say are those of thanksgiving to Almighty God for the King's recovery. His patience and courage drew the sympathy of all nations and proved a new bond of human brotherhood. Never has loyalty of his people been more affectionately centred on the Throne than it is at this moment...
...Belgium, voting is compulsory. That is why, in a nation of 7,744,000 people, some 2,500,000 votes were cast last week in a little-noticed general Belgian election.* The event drew small attention because there was very little at stake. M. Henri Jaspar is still prime minister. In the central legislature, the greatest gain in seats was made by the Liberal party, which had encouraged closer relations with France and opposed the liquor laws forbidding the drinking of hard liquor in public. To win voters from Antwerp and Brussels, notorious amateurs of fine Burgundy, the Liberals promised...