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Word: inking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visiting cards, tradesmen's bills, timetables. "Burn it, tear it to pieces, blue pencil it. I don't want to look at it. . . . The first thing to do, I think, must be to divide up the work." In a score of inkwells scattered about, there is no ink. Josephine fills them with coffee. The pens scratch and splutter. Joan of Arc is postponed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anatole at Ease* | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

They made money out of her and they laughed at her. She was a Queen-hard up, probably-trying to make a little money on the side by soiling her dainty fingers with ink, writing in a language she did not know to satisfy the curiosity of distant crowds. They were hard-boiled journalists who never soiled their stubby fingers with ink because the office boy changed their typewriter ribbons when necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ungracious | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

...least so the flaring headlines of certain extras implied last Friday. Another tempest in a teapot, the fourth or fifth within a fortnight! With all these absurdities whose only claim to screaming importance comes from their association with the name of Harvard, Cambridge is becoming as noisy as red ink extras and frantic newsboys can make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "READ ALL ABOUT IT!" | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

Already we have taken from two to three hundred pages of notes in nearly every course. The notebooks are of a special construction, and the pages have a large margin for "annotations," which are our summaries (we do them in red ink) of the points of law involved in the cases. In the margins, also, we stick our obstracts. These abstracts are condensations of the facts and decisions of the cases that we make when we read them, and are on onion paper with a gummed edge. None of this procedure is required of us; it is merely a method...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HARVARD CAN NO MORE BE COMPARED TO WILLIAMS THAN AN ELEPHANT TO A ROSE" | 5/29/1925 | See Source »

Cavorting in ink as he bellows and bawls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 5/20/1925 | See Source »

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