Word: drews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took on his job at a few hours' notice, having expected to play a quiet younger brother role to Brother Edward all his life. Pressmen who followed him around the long loop from Quebec to Halifax were struck by the added poise and self-confidence that George drew from the ordeal. Filled with new pride in their King & Queen, Britons were preparing to give them a monster welcome-with millions lining the railroad right-of-way to London -calculated to top anything the Yankees did for their sovereigns...
...leering classmate urged him to go to an art class in South Boston, because there he might see "real naked women and it only costs a quarter." Grosser went and returned breathless, not because of the model (that night it was a shabby old man) but because he drew better than anyone in the class and loved...
...County. There, on a mountainside near the village of Black Mountain, they rented for the college year a Y. M. C. A. summer-conference hotel, a huge white-columned building with a magnificent view of the Craggy Mountains across the Swannanoa Valley. First year, Black Mountain's teachers drew no pay. To help support the college, teachers and students ran a farm, did their own housework (except cooking and dishwashing...
Jamie Ferguson fled Scotland when the Stuart cause brought disaster on its adherents. He joined an uncle in Suncook in the Province of New Hampshire, learned woodcraft under old Toby, an Indian. Successful in the lumber trade, he married Dorcas Drew, lived to regret it. After he joined the Rangers of his friend, Captain Robert Rogers, Jamie fought in campaigns around Lake Champlain and Ticonderoga, while Dorcas dallied with his intriguing, traitorous Cousin Hubert, a British officer. Jamie hardly minded, but when Hubert's dark eye fell upon Purity Stiles, whom Jamie now loved, that was a different matter...
...second Tufts got another unearned marker when Raphael drew a base on balls, got to second on Johns' error, took third on a passed ball, and scored on a third slip in the field by the Crimson captain. Lupe Lupien turned a pop bunt into a sparkling double play to nip the rally before any further damage could be done...