Word: drews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recurrent phrases "watch the drivers roll," exactly like the wording of the song "Vanderbilt's Daughter" written in Virginia?if I recollect correctly many years earlier? strongly indicate that either Newton & Seiberg drew chiefly on the older song rather than on any origination of Saunders, or that Saunders merely applied new names and a few facts to the older song as he had heard...
...only helped to break the strike but turned an angry citizenry loose against the supposed revolutionaries. Husky young men wearing union buttons and proudly called "vigilantes" by the newspapers began making raids on Communist headquarters. First raid was on the Western Worker, Communist daily. Five carloads of raiders drew up before the building, hurled rocks through the windows, smashed down doors, made kindling wood of every stick of furniture, tore down red banners, smashed typewriters, destroyed pamphlets and papers. A pleased and approving populace looked on from a safe distance. Five minutes after the raiders left police arrived...
...siding near Knowsley Hall, vast Lancashire estate of Edward George Villiers Stanley. 17th Earl of Derby.* There is no other peer with whom the King would rather dine and sit up late over a whiskey-soda. But scowling heavens loosed a cloudburst just as the Royal Train drew in. Terrific thunder claps, incessant lightning and sheets of lashing rain kept Their Majesties aboard the train all night. Next day amid brilliant sunshine Lord Derby was their guest as they chuffed off to open the most exciting feat of British engineering in this decade-Queensway, longest and largest underwater tunnel...
...little band of men who were not there to worship God and His Son to be born on the morrow. Brilliant in churchly regalia, a solemn procession moved up the aisle toward the candle-decked altar. When Archbishop Leon Tourian, tall, grey-bearded primate of his Church in America, drew abreast of them, the men did what they had come for. A double-edged butcher knife flashed once, vanished in the Archbishop's abdomen. (TIME...
When Manhattan's eccentric spinster Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel died in 1931, she left to five charitable institutions the bulk of the $36,000,000 fortune which old John Gottlieb Wendel had founded in the fur trade and grounded in Manhattan. To small Drew University of Madison, N. J. fell the lamed Wendel mansion on 39th Street and Fifth Avenue, with a high-fenced side yard which was maintained exclusively for Spinster Wendel's toothless, asthmatic poodle Tobey. Last week it was learned that Drew University had leased the site of the Wendel mansion for a long term...