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...When we reached the table I drew out my fountain pen and signed against my seal, which had been set at the very end of the page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Mutter of Versailles | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...Weimar I learned from French newspapers that it was intended to have the Treaty of Versailles signed with a special pen supplied by the leagues of Alsace and Lorraine. I decided to avoid this deliberately prepared humiliation by signing with my own fountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Mutter of Versailles | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...Bell did not possess a fountain pen, so in order to be on the safe side he had obtained a cheap pen holder and pen from the hotel, wrapped it up in a bit of newspaper and stuck it into his waistcoat pocket. He produced it and used it to affix his signature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Mutter of Versailles | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...hopelessly away. In America's Sweetheart, however, when Jack Whiting sees that his girl friend (Harriette Lake) is about to throw him over for a big cinemagnate, he breaks into a sullen soft-shoe dance with Gus Shy, the comic, and then irritably pushes Miss Lake into a fountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...Japanese Diet last week Deputy Tokuho Mitsui (not a member of the "House of Mitsui," richest in Japan) was stabbed in the arm with a fountain pen. A dagger flashed. In the wild melee several heads and hands were slashed. Other heads grew lumps after the police poured in. When the fight first began, Acting Prime Minister Baron Shidehara was in a nearby room. Without an instant's hesitation he walked out of the Diet Building surrounded by his six new plainclothesmen (all jiu-jitsu experts), climbed into his limousine and drove home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Slip of the Tongue | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

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