Word: inkpot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleasure because it was unexpected. I really didn't intend to write for the CRIMSON this year. After my unprecedented success--I say this with modesty--last season; I was approached by many syndicates with attractive propositions. And I was surely tempted to dip my pen in an inkpot of gold--to use a rather neat figure of speech--and join the tabloid ranks as an expert writer. But the tabloid writers type with only one finger, while two Forecast digits rattle the keys, yea even three or four in moments of excitement, so I realized I should feel...
...copies of L'Action Française. With sandbags, barbed wire, and 100 "Camelots" to defend him,. Editor Daudet felt safe in his office, announced that he would reside there indefinitely in a self-proclaimed state of siege. To reporters he cried: "My house, my stable and my inkpot are henceforth here! My Leaguers ["Camelots") will not allow me to go to prison. Let the Prosecutor General dare to try to arrest me! He is mistaken if he believes, as he says, that I will have to bear the expenses of his proceedings. I am within my right...
...first editorial; and the rest, indeed, somewhat less than three paragraphs of silence. The style of Lampy has always been traditional. It must always be so; it must be perpetuated. To the limbo of Lampooniana, you editors who do not know it; to the limbo, and let scissors, inkpot, paste, and neophyte stand waiting until you have searched and found, tugged and pulled, and dragged into editorial light the sacred phial which holds the essence of Lampy. In that, then, did your pens...
Whitney Cromwell carries off highest honors in the poetry. The picture of Pan pressing his "twisted thumb against his nose" is delicious-and it is painted with well-swung movements of the brush. What is more, it is a generous relief from the devil-in-the-inkpot type of verse. Mr. Hope's "Ballad" is symbolic and severe, as much a ballad should be; but then Mr. Hope can usually be counted on to produce good work...
...GRAND TOUR-Romer Wilson -Knopf ($2.50). When a sculptor genius plays with the inkpot, unusual things are apt to happen; the grand tour of Alphonse Marichaud in the foreign field of the written word is extraordinary. Letters to a friend -to a mistress-sharp, vivid, merry, little incidents-characterizations of people, of places as clean and telling as if they were cut on a copper plate-a startling potpourri of wit, vigor, irony, tragedy, acute observation - self-portrait of Marichaud himself that ranks among the few convincing descriptions of genius in recent fiction-all these jostle each other with...