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...Tennis, was published by Doubleday Doran last week. Comment on Beasley's behavior by Colyumist W. O. McGeehan: "All through the match between Vines and Austin he sat like Madame de Farge at her knitting, only . . . instead of the knitting needles of the French Revolution, he used a pencil and a tablet, making notes. He will present the notes to the United States Lawn Tennis Association, instead of the Davis...
There was a bustle as a photographer hurried in. He set up his camera, efficiently brushed the paste pots aside, stuck a pencil in Mr. Bilbo's hand. "Now, Governor." he briskly directed, "just try to look like you're busy...
...even a wise man will do." Though Bennett wrote for money and made a good income (as high as $75,000) he was not extravagant; but he had foibles. "In the morning, early, I went into Selfridge's, which ought not to have been open, and bought a pencil that writes in four colours and a combination magnifying-glass, inch rule, and letter opener. All very attractive, indeed irresistible...
...wedding or ball, 16 columns to a day's social news. To her, debutantes are "rosebuds," a dining table is "the central mahogany," a woman's dress is a "toilet." Her copy is sacred. When a cotillion was being formed four years ago no editor touched pencil to the information that it was an organization of "young celibrates" for whom tailcoats would be "de Rigeuer." Some society editors in other cities are as remarkable if not so powerful as Marion Devereux: Boston had until last winter a tsar to match Tsarina Devereux. He was Charles Elmer ("Charlie") Alexander...
While the rain still poured down, investigators found the pilot's metal pencil, buckles and the plane's motor 100 feet away from the embers of the destroyed buildings, tried to piece from charred evidence the precise cause of the year's deadliest crash...