Word: pencil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter, at home usually dresses in slippers, baggy pants and a brown leather jacket, which he refuses to change even to receive distinguished visitors. His Spartan study at Princeton, from which even his family is sternly barred, is furnished only with an unpainted table, a few unpainted shelves, a pencil and paper for his mathematical calculations. Though his salary from the Institute for Advanced Study is $20,000 a year (four times the sum he suggested when the Institute asked him to name his own figure, according to Marianoff), he has never owned a car, fights off his family...
...said snippily, "It's a secret," and then added briskly: "Mr. President, do you mean you didn't want to answer the question?" Franklin Roosevelt, still chuckling, said, Let's see . . . who was the little girl in the stories? Pollyanna? Elizabeth Craig was still uncrushed, her pencil poised...
...Works. Columnist Pyle, still genuinely humble yet not unaffected by his new fame, is particularly worried lest the forthcoming Pyle-based movie portray him dashing around with pad & pencil, eagerly asking questions and making notes...
Outstanding was September 13, 1918, Saint Mihiel, by 54-year-old Kerr Eby, now painting for the Marines. It was a pencil drawing of weary, bent men on the march under a sky filled with a ponderous black cloud. Artist Eby says that the cloud hung in the sky for three days; the Germans thought it was an omen...
...reticence and understatement. As a ten-year cover-to-cover reader, I can recall without referring to your files that you did your very best to depict the seriousness of the international situation not only after Pearl Harbor and before Bataan. You outlined with a dark editorial pencil the sinister threat of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis to the democracies in general and the U.S. in particular long before Pearl Harbor...