Word: drews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese and some of the Japanese battling at Shanghai last week to supreme efforts, almost unbelievable but reported by correspondents who said they saw what happened. Japanese soldiers, facing Chinese barbed wire entanglements covered at close range by Chinese guns, walked slowly into the wire carrying dynamite, drew upon themselves a Chinese fire which weakened the Chinese entanglements little by little. Among "somewhat wounded" Chinese soldiers (men with perhaps an arm shot off or an eye shot out), a spontaneous movement rose to volunteer as "human bombs." Such a Chinese, first soaking his clothes and bandages in gasoline, would...
...uncle, John Drew, on learning that young Barrymore had been drafted for relief work after the earthquake, said: "It took a convulsion of nature to get him up and the U. S. Army to put him to work...
While the Barrymore tradition in the cinema may be perpetuated by Dolores Ethel Mae Barrymore. infant daughter of John, it is even more likely to be continued by the grown sons (Samuel Pomeroy Colt, 22, John Drew Colt, 18) and daughter (Ethel Barrymore Colt, 19) of Sister Ethel Barrymore. John Colt made his debut last year in Scarlet Sister Mary. His sister, wearing blackface, performed in the same play and was this season deluded by the mercenary assurances of George White into joining the cast of his Scandals. This year Ethel Barrymore has been touring the Midwest, to comparatively small...
...notable exchange occurred when he drew a chair with horizontal back slats. She sketched that kind of chair back. But it did not seem correct. She made another picture with the chair slats vertical (see cut), felt better. Mr. Irwin had drawn his chair while looking through the vertical bars which composed the foot...
Amerindian Black Elk was born in 1863, in time to see and take part in much of the fighting that drove his race off the free earth into government reservations to decay. Treaty after treaty the Indians drew up with the Wasichus (white men) who took what land they wanted, promised the rest should remain Indian "as long as grass should grow and water flow. You can see that it is not the grass and the water that have forgotten...