Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, Representatives call each other names. In Japan, deputies sometimes fight with daggers and fountain pens (TIME, Feb. 16). In France they punch each other on the nose, have been known to use a dog whip (TIME, Nov. 17 ). In Poland they hurl inkwells, kick each other's shins (TIME, March 10, 1930). But in Mexico they do not fool. As Deputy Ruiz rushed forward, one shot banged out (witnesses later swore it came from the visitors' gallery), followed immediately by a general drawing and firing of guns by Mexico's lawmakers. Manuel Ruiz died...
...small boy whose father has recently died becomes the man of the family by getting a job behind a soda-fountain, shows his mother that he, and no stepfather, will fill his father's shoes...
Music AT NIGHT?Aldous Huxley? Fountain Press...
...Monticello" near Charlottesville, Va. One room of "Monticello," maintained by the Jefferson Foundation, is to be designated "Freedom of the Press Room." Sponsors of the idea expressed the hope that newspapermen from all the land would make annual "pious" pilgrimages to the home "to refresh our spirit in the fountain of freedom...
...French Academician Paul Valery, German Nobleman Thomas Mann, Italy's Ugo Ojetti, Norway's Nina Roll-Anker. Professor Gilbert Murray (Oxford English Dictionary) was there in his capacity as President of the International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation. The delegates spent most of their time rushing about with fountain pens in their hands autographing each others' books and sign ing group photographs, but they did pass resolutions asking for more broadcasting of poetry, suggested that the donors of poetry prizes give supplementary prizes for elocution in poetry. Neither were they too busy to recognize and honor the Widow...