Word: pen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...badly needed in France. Mexico has been a thorn not only in our side, but in that of Europe as well. The latter will soon reach the limit of their patience. Our much-touted Monroe Doctrine is going to be an embarrassment to any administration we may elect. Euro-pen countries, with vast war debts to pay off and rich consecrations is Mexico are likely to suggest that they go in and make that turbulent nation safe for their investments. The Monroe Doctrine forbids such an encroachment on the Western Hemisphere, but the United States is going to have...
These fragments, hastily executed in pencil, brush, pen, or water-color, present the most graphic pictorial record of the Yankee in France that we remember to have seen. It is of slight importance that, in such drawings as "Home" and "Her Boy Too", we can trace plainly the Style of Poulbot: or that the wash drawings entitled, "The Gardener's Cottage", "Toul Sector Days", and "The Town of Cuffles", remind us forcibly of Bruce Bairnsfather. The fact is that, missing alike the delicate expressiveness of the French draughtsman and the whimsicality of the Britisher, Mr. Baldridge strikes a note...
...Mister in "The Nude Romance" makes an amusing attempt at parody some of the material which has appeared in recent numbers of the Harvard Magazine. That sort of thing calls for a facile pen and wit of a high order. Mr. Mister gives promise of cultivating or acquiring these by dint of much practice. Although he is far from expert now, his work shows much promise, and even a poor attempt is better than none. Such parodies do much toward stimulating a healthy rivalry, in the same way that Zeppelin raids during the war were almost invariably followed...
...news gatherers will cross bats with Lampy's lurid lyric artists in their one hundred and fifty-second annual baseball orgy. At a late hour last night it was reported that the Lampoon athletes were in a well-preserved condition; but there seems no doubt that the Plympton street pen pushers will have little difficulty in disposing of the punsters...
Eighteen thousand Harvard men have been examined by Dr. Sargent during his career at the University and more books on the general subject of athletic training have come from his pen than from any other authority in the world...