Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Paul E. Wirt, 85, attorney, inventor of the fountain pen; in Bloomsburg, Pa. Irked by ink constantly spilled on his legal papers, he invented a cumbersome pen, filled by a medicine dropper, on which for a time he held a monopoly...
...Awful" Brand Fountain Pens...
What the buyer wants, K. Mori & Co. feel, is a fountain pen so good that it will inspire awe. Even Japan's Imperial House is now being dragged into industrial promotion, though as yet His Majesty the Son of Heaven is sacrosanct. Latest pictures show the Divine Emperor's popular brother Prince Chichibu seated grinning in a Datsun (see cut). Screams a recent Datsun advertisement: "FIRST NO LAST." This peculiar sales argument is stated more fully thus: FIRST Motor Car Produced in Japan In Performance and Quality In Public Favor...
...comedian. His enormous Gladstone collars generally have the patina of an ancient manuscript. He hates beds and regular meals, cooks what he wants when he is hungry and sleeps on the attic floor rolled up in a blanket. To counteract his habit of forgetting things his watch, his pocketbook, fountain pen, keys, etc. are attached to his clothes by an intricate system of safety pins and odd bits of string. He knows Goethe's Faust by heart, writes and speaks Latin fluently, discourses familiarly on the philosophy of Nietzsche, Spengler, hates beer...
...gang," as Louis Howe calls the White House office force. They were delighted to have a wholly air-conditioned building to save them from the summer's heat; delighted with the roomy basement offices extending out under the lawn and surrounding a little sunken court with a fountain in its centre; delighted that in place of the beautiful but useless McKim dome over the old waiting room, their palace had got a roomy penthouse where more secretaries and clerks, including those of Mrs. Roosevelt, can do more work more easily...