Word: pad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself as a dual personality: "John Martin," altruist, idealist; and "hardboiled, almost unmoral" Morgan Shepard. Sometimes he will dash to a nearby hospital to amuse bedridden children. His favorite device for 30 years has been the "Quizz-wizz." He thrusts a pencil into a child's hand, holds a pad of paper under it, jiggles the child's elbow. Then he sketches lines around the meaningless scrawl, telling a story as he goes, finally completing a drawing of a grotesque animal...
Translating vaisseau from the French, a student wrote 'on his scratch pad: "vessle, vessil, vassel." Then, apparently giving it up, he thought of a synonym, wrote "bote...
Outcome of the White House conference was one that had grown more and more imminent all week. Commander-in-Chief Hoover said something to Secretary Hurley. Secretary Hurley spoke to General MacArthur. General MacArthur raced off for his office, scribbled something on a scratch pad, handed it to General George Van Horn Moseley, deputy chief of staff, who tapped out an order on his stenographer's typewriter with one finger. Then the President told an anxious nation...
...would be long or short, Private Secretary Joslin gravely declared: "All I can say at this time is that the message will not be a long one-and also that it will not be a short one." For weeks President Hoover has been carrying around a little 5? pad of paper in his pocket, jotting down random message ideas with a stubby pencil...
...Electrical Engineering, who worked with Edison for seven years. "Inspiration is an other word for perspiration,' Edison would say, and proved it, by working day and night, occasionally taking some sleep on a workshop table. During the day, he was constantly jotting down inventions on a small yellow pad, and although most of them were dropped, there was at least one each day that was experimented with successfully...