Word: inks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl of the iSSo's and' a modern girl (platinum blonde) raising goblets to the famed Life cherub. The body of the magazine looks like a normal current issue with these exceptions: Frontispiece is a reproduction of the first cover, drawn by Artist Mitchell-a pen-&-ink sketch showing Father Time fiddling while two exceedingly fat cherubs dance together between the letters of LIFE, the whole against an elysian landscape...
...brought up in whatever foreign posts his family happened to be, he served his country in France, Spain, Turkey, Geneva. Persia, Germany. In 1929, unable to contain himself any longer, he resigned, joined forces with the "Bloomsbury Group" (John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, the late Lytton Strachey), took to ink. His first books were biographies of Tennyson, Byron, Swinburne, Verlaine. No mere filial pietist, he wrote a biography of his father that might stand as a monument to the "old" diplomacy...
...wasn't so-' "Let us write a nice list of mistakes they can use, "And publish a broadside 'gainst those who enthuse "About writing correctly; we simply can't bother. "But for all unmistakable errors-well, rather! "We'll cross and recross with red ink all of those, "And for those kind the students will pay through the nose! "Better middle-class English we'll teach in our schools, "And correct composition we'll leave to the fools "Who are picayune, narrow, and nasty enough "To insist that their pupils must master such...
Last week the Press's watchdogs exulted over what they thought was the approach of a crisis in the quarrel of ink v. air. The American Newspaper Publishers Association directorate adopted a resolution against giving news to Radio; and the Associated Press determined to poll its embattled membership on the question...
There has been much justified doubt as to the advisability of individual attention for boys of Preparatory school age. Men weaned on the "five-hundred-times-neatly-in-ink" policy have felt that such treatment would undermine rather than develop the resourcefulness and independence upon which hangs youth's virility and chances for success at college. And had the Exeter faculty failed to recognize such a possibility and to counteract it by an iron hand beneath the velveteen, the shell-backed pessimism would have been amply substantiated...