Word: drews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro Robinson refused to surrender the battery, promised to come immediately to the Boyd store with what he owed. Instead he appeared with his father Tom, his brothers Oliver and Jacob, all armed, and bashed Clarence Boyd over the head with a bottle. Thereupon Grover Boyd, uncle of Clarence, drew a revolver from his nearby automobile, opened fire on the Negroes. They shot him dead; Jacob, Tom and Oliver escaped. A hurrying crowd seized Esau Robinson, strung him to a tree-ninth lynching on the 1930 roll, Alabama's first this year...
...umpire, made repeated requests for quiet as the crowd cheered Borotra. Tilden won the second set and lost the third, 4-6. Borotra, saving himself for the last, dropped the fourth with out winning a game. When the score reached 4-all in the last set, Tilden drew Borotra to the net and played his backhand until the Frenchman, reaching for a passing shot, lost his footing and sprawled heavily on the side line. Once, when he needed the fifth set to win, a Wimbledon crowd would hardly have needed to wait while Tilden won it. They waited last week...
Detroit. While Philadelphia, Hollywood, and Manhattan were turning out for their summer's opening concerts. Detroit's Symphony Orchestra was well into its third week of playing. Under the baton of Victor Kolar, Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch's able associate, the Detroit musicians drew large throngs to the "shell" stadium on famed Belle Isle...
When Amy Johnson, England-to-Australia flyer (TIME, June 2), arrived in Perth on her triumphal tour of Australia's cities, a youth climbed aboard her motor from the cheering mob, tried to kiss her. She narrowed her eyes, drew back her hand, bloodied his nose...
...humorless, cranky old maid was Emily Dickinson. Hers was feminine intelligence at its keenest, and many a masculine ponderosity drew her inner smile. Said she: "I believe the love of God may be taught not to seem like bears." Unable to discover the Devil, she concluded: "He must be making war on some other nation." Her definition of poetry is famed among present-day poets: "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head...