Word: drews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of "revolutionary developments in underwater warfare," the Navy last week drew one light carrier and eight destroyers out of mothballs. To help provide the men to man them, the Navy retired the battleship Iowa to the inactive list...
...When the tenderfoot later drew a Galoola Bird of his own, the Westerner pointed to a sec ond sign: HOUSE RULE - ONLY ONE GALOOLA BIRD ALLOWED IN AN EVENING...
Almost unnoticed at Springfield was Progressive Day. Vice-Presidential Candidate Glen Taylor drew a crowd of only 300 people, but they were enthusiastic. He assured them that the Russians "desperately crave peace," ended up by singing a duet with his wife. He sang It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary while she gave out with "What you gonna do when the rent comes 'round?" Witnesses declared it was more sensational than anything the fair could offer-the two cows made of butter, or even "Hitler's and Eva Braun's Love Car Worth...
...much truth the philosophers had amassed was perhaps best revealed by a little man who rose from the back rows and asked permission to speak. After several minutes his learned listeners still understood nothing of his polysyllabic lecture. At length he went to the blackboard and drew a series of complicated equations (which Expert Russell later pronounced nonsense). Then the little man smiled and said softly: "And this, gentlemen, solves the problem of the world...
...autograph to dusty pilgrims. In the village square a rusty gramophone was grinding out popular waltz tunes. Soon the pilgrims began betting on whether Maria would die. They bet money, their wine crops, their horses, mules and even pieces of land. As Maria's hour of agony drew near the wine flowed faster, the music beat louder, the bets went higher...