Word: nibs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first standard high-priced fountain pen launched on what had always been a low-priced market. Next Walter Sheaffer streamlined his pens. Then in quick succession he introduced the Sheaffer desk set with universal socket (which seals the tip of the pen and keeps it moist), the Feathertouch nib, the special Sheaffer pencil which "propels, repels and expels the lead," the Sheaffer Vacuum-Fil pen. By 1929 the company's gross sales had climbed to $8,000,000 and its profits, averaging more than $1,000,000, were ahead of those of one of its two rivals, Parker...
...married man too much in love with his busy literary wife, and a theatrical producer. For two acts she fills their pipes, leans against their knees, tells them her sole object in life is to take care of a big baby who wants to be taken care of, nib- bles at food in public, wolfs it in private, conspicuously weeps, sniffles, gasps, coos, flits and flutters. Having kept three men simultaneously in the air. she nearly breaks up the married man's home before she settles on the producer. In this empty and ungrateful part, her first in straight...