Word: inked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany), German State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Walter Hallstein smilingly handed Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett a golden fountain pen. Sharett bent over the reparations documents, and in the silence the scratch of the pen was heard through the room. But the pen made no mark: its ink had run dry. Stiffly, Sharett signed with his own pen. The other signers: Adenauer, and Dr. Nahum Goldmann, representing 23 Jewish organizations outside Israel...
...answer in two parts: 1) a friendly letter from Matisse, 2) a tubular package which arrived last week. Caditz, knowing from the letter that something good was on the way, called in his friends and opened the package with ceremony and champagne. Inside was a delicate pen & ink sketch of a girl's head. Generous but cautious Henri Matisse had written: "I am sending you . . . the object you desire, with the hope that it will please you. But I pray you not to encourage any of your friends to make a similar request of me." His mail-order...
...language of the Algonquin Indians by the Rev. John Eliot). ¶ The so-called "Jefferson Bible," a red morocco-bound copybook, in which Jefferson, a deist, pasted the words of Jesus as clipped from Bible texts. ¶ President Truman's inauguration Bible, in which he noted in ink on the flyleaf: "There was much scurrying around to find this book on which to take the oath...
...unpractical father died a bankrupt, and after a year or so Sam was put to the printer's trade to help support the family. There was variety in the shop, all right (as when a cow wandered in one night, upset a tray of type, munched on several ink-rollers, wandered out again), but the golden days were almost over, and Sam began to wonder how he could ever get them back. Wecter's book leaves him still wondering, as he wondered all his life, until at last he reached the conclusion that "I should greatly like...
Never has the U.S. spent so much on advertising as it did in 1951. Last week Printers' Ink published the estimated total: $6,496,500,000, nearly 14% more than in 1950, but not quite in step with the 15% increase in the nation's gross national product...