Word: inking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knowing that he wanted to surprise the country with a deficit that would look like a trifling puddle beside the oceans of red ink spread on the Government's books during the past two years, many a Washington wiseacre believed the President would profess uncertainty of Relief needs. He might, for example, ask only a billion for Relief. This would lend the budget a cheerful aspect that would last through next year's elections, after which another Congress could appropriate another billion...
...regime at Peiping with every trapping of intellectual subtlety and elegance. Today Chinese students have less use for either than they had in the days when Wu Pei-fu was mastering scholarship and the composition of fragile poems on expensive paper with a jade-handled ink brush...
Rivers of ink spurted from Geneva last week as into action sprang charming Mme Geneviève Tabouis, brightest spirit among that sector of correspondents who feel that they can mold a better world by twisting every story to the advantage of the League of Nations. They felt with an honest, apostolic zeal that they must kill "The Deal" by which Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain and Premier Pierre Laval of France had undertaken to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia at the latter's expense. Before the terms were officially known Mme Tabouis of Paris...
...taste, the Higher Up ordered the presses stopped at once. All copies of the Book Review already printed were destroyed. Since it was too late for costly re-plating, printers were ordered to scratch out the offending line of type with a chisel, smudge over the offending illustration with ink...
...happy day soon came when Leslie's Weekly paid him $40 for a pen & ink sketch. Shortly thereafter the U. S. S. Maine went down in Havana harbor and Publisher Hearst's war with Spain was on. At a contracted salary of $200 per week from Leslie's Weekly and Scribner's Magazine, 25-year-old Howard Chandler Christy sailed for Cuba on the same transport with Col. Leonard Wood, Lieut.-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders. The 400 drawings he sent back from the front are possibly Christy's best work to date...