Word: pencilers
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...poster was tattered; the top right hand corner had been torn off, as if someone had tried to wrench the whole thing down, and over it had been clumsily scrawled in pencil, "Vendus comme les autres" (sold out, like the others...
...sympathetic, soft-pencil sketches of bitter-bibbing charladies and cockney pub-dwellers were for several decades familiar to Punch and Tatler readers. The drawings had a good humor of their own, though the gags that went with them were too topical or parochial for export...
...Writer: ". . . An ulcer with a pencil. . . . The weight of [his] head causes his buggy-whip backbone to bend forward, giving the impression that the writer is concealing a boomerang in the back of his coat...
...Censor: "... A man with no sense of humor who is so narrow-minded he thinks in strips. He comes to his job equipped with a blue pencil and the right of way. [He] can find dirt in an infant's glance...
...even think twice about her.") Sophie makes no bones about the fact that she is no drawing-board designer, that she couldn't draw a curve to save her neck. If it comes to that, most of the other top designers are no better with a pencil than Sophie. "But," as she says, "they won't admit it. We all design in just about the same...