Word: drews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last week a black ambulance drew up beside a big red brick house in El Paso, Tex. Out of the house and down the steps a few minutes later hobbled a feeble old man. He wore pajamas and a green smoking jacket. A white hat rested on his stringy white hair. Friends lifted him gently into the car. He lay down on the stretcher. In beside him got a pretty 17-year-old girl. A motorcycle policeman escorted the ambulance as it drove off in the dusk. Later a somberly dressed woman came out of the house...
Governor General Davis (he is also from Missouri), Army officers and U. S. businessmen ignored the parade. Earlier charges were heard that instructors at the National University had coerced students to participate by threats to reduce their grades 5%. The demonstration which drew 100,000 spectators was orderly and good-natured. Trouble developed only when a band of 200 Filipino rowdies invaded the lawns of the Army & Navy Club, began throwing stones. They were driven off by club members...
...White Plains, N. Y., Frank Beattie, 24, went to an office where his girl worked as a stenographer, pleaded with her to marry him. She refused. He drew a pistol from his pocket, discharged a blank cartridge against his chest. Frank Beattie was arrested for violating a fireworks ordinance...
...Parke, having seen that all was aright with the presidential train, stood in the ladies' waiting room. He vaguely remembered having been interrupted by a calm, lithe little man who asked a lot of questions. Evidently just another traveler. Agent Parke was watching now for the fine horses that drew the carriage of Secretary of State James Gillespie Blaine...
...June 20, 1928," he said, "a Serb Deputy, Punica Ratchitch, while the Chamber was sitting, drew a revolver from his pocket and fired five shots at the Croat Deputies. My cousin, Paul Raditch, convinced that the Serb wanted to kill my father, threw himself upon him but fell dead, shot in the head. My father rose, with his old friend Grandzsa by his side. Punica Ratchitch continued to fire and my father fell, together with Grandzsa and another Croat named Peruar. Taken to a hospital my father died a few weeks later, both from his wounds and from poison administered...