Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lisbon papers rumored last week that what had roused President Carmona (himself addicted to fountain pens) to have the inkstand made was the wedding of Princess Marie Jose of Belgium (TIME, Jan. 13). Finding it necessary to order a candelabra for H. R. H., he went the whole hog, ordered the Peace Palace's inkstand too, plus a tray for it to stand on, plus two goose quill pens...
Inches here surpass fathoms of elevation. If the Lowell House dais had been a four inch depression instead, where dignitaries in dinner coats are served about a symbolic fountain of Florida water of five or ten watts even, the affront to democracy would have been extreme, and beyond measure regrettable...
...Dalton, Diamond's chauffeur, come to take Mrs. Witcher to visit in Acra. The visit was postponed .and all present were arrested, because under a Witcher bed was discovered a terrifying gangland armory, including bullet-proof vests, "pineapple" hand-grenades, tear gas bombs, revolver ammunition, several calibres of "fountain-pen" pistols, dynamite...
...York Curb is listed the stock of a company engaged in manufacturing patented egg-containers. Another operates whaling vessels. Others make camel's hair goods, fountain pens, soft drinks, clocks, sheets, bathing suits. But never until last week was a company, devoted entirely to peanuts, represented upon a New York stock market. The peanut came to Wall Street with the listing on the Curb of Tom Huston Peanut...
Doran Out. He has never learned to drive a car. Nor can he use a fountain pen. But he published Aldous Huxley as willingly as he published James Moffatt's translation of the Bible. And in such versatility lay George Henry Doran's prowess as a publisher. His career's milestones have not been many. He was born in Toronto in 1869, began selling books when he was 15. In 1908 he left Fleming H. Revell Co., Manhattan religious publishers, of which he had become a vice president, to form his own house. In 1928 he merged with Doubleday, Page...