Word: inking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enough to set grave and learned philologists deliberating. These worthy scholars have bestowed upon Mr. I the superlative degree hence his fame-- by declaring that his "must be the shortest name in existence, as it is composed of but one letter and the letter which uses less ink than any other of the alphabet...
...James H. Collins, writing in the current issue of Printers' Ink says: "Fundamentally, the trust company must be either wrong or right. If it is right, and a good thing for the public, the more it advertises and the greater the volume of business it receives, the greater the public good. If the trust company is wrong, why merely prohibit its advertising? Why not have the state cancel its charter? Finally, if a business has a legitimate reason for existence and yet can be advertisingly gagged through legislation that will benefit only a minority, where will the line...
...Wells has long had a predilection for theories of education. He has already devoted much thought and ink to putting England's educational system on a sound basis, Now, either satisfied that England is saved, or convinced that she is beyond help--one can't be sure which it is--Mr. Wells volunteers to snatch the United States from deterioration...
...peso "Independence Fund" voted annually by the legislature, from which they replenish their pockets without rendering account. This year for Christmas they thought they would dramatize independence in a new yuletide comedy for their electorate. So they gathered their best minds together and with pen, ink and paper indicted a letter to the League of Nations' International Labor Bureau. They asked how they might join the Bureau and said that they hoped someday to join the League. Critics who like the Filipino people better than Filipino politicians picture the latter strutting before their constituencies with a New Year rodomondate...
...born in the same year as Napoleon, nor George Washington have ever attained that universality of fame which belongs to the Little Corporal. Hence, because many millions of words have failed to say all that is to be said, Napoleon continues, and will long continue, to make the ink flow, the typewriters clatter and the printing-presses...