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Word: drews (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Premier, instead of putting the distribution in the hands of the entire membership, with the idea of ascertaining the police's attitude on the matter. That was succinctly voiced by Captain Michael Brennan of Station One, when he said to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday: "Well, he drew a big crowd and he wanted us to lock him up, but we were on to him, so we didn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $10,000 DAMAGES AS COHEN GROUNDS ON SQUARE ISLAND | 10/5/1929 | See Source »

Jose Clemente Orozco started as a caricaturist. Early he gained a reputation for diabolical satire and was called the 'Mexican Goya. In the Mexican National Academy he studied painting and drew rude portraits of his masters. They told him he could not draw and sent him away. After this he worked as a newspaper artist, followed a regiment in the Carranza-Villa revolution. As a syndicate worker, he covered patio walls, stairways and crypts with enormous frescoes of a beardless Christ bearing a great cross, Saint Francis of Assisi bowing to kiss a leper, caricatures of bourgeoise ladies and their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Intrinsically Native | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Together the three consulted, then drew up the list of their first four witnesses, William B. Shearer not included. The four were officials of two of three shipbuilding companies suspected of having hired Shearer to induce failure of the Geneva Disarmament Conference so that they might have more battleships to build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Epic Lobby | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

John Tinney McCutcheon, cartoonist for the patrioteering Chicago Tribune, drew a cartoon in which Uncle Sam, irate, directed the Senate investigation to haul a Big Navy Propagandist from under neath a table, where crouched another figure labelled Peace Propagandist. The caption said: "Drag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Epic Lobby | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...first "take off" alone, as he tells it, his heart was up around his Adam's apple where it had no business. The more so when the usual little brown ambulance drew up to wait at one corner of the broad flying field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Tomorrow You Go Solo!" Tomorrow I Fly Alone | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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