Word: pencilers
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...found that there was "something wrong with the blueprints", Franklin Delano Roosevelt who would "rather walk than be president", "Humpty-Dumpty" Ivar Krauger of the "great fall", "Playboy" Jimmy of the "Primrose Path", Smith Reynolds "who had never quite got a grip on life", Dr. Rosenbach whose "little gold pencil flipped up" -- all these and a hundred more slide into memory and out again with epigrammatic case. There is nothing new or startling or illuminating; but through all the superficiality there is a sure touch, here flippancy, here sober sentimentality. Mr. Hill, if nothing else, is a good reporter...
...bill been drawn up that no printed copies of it were yet available for members. Their only knowledge of what they were being asked to approve came from a clerk's sing-song reading of the lone text which still bore last-minute corrections scribbled in pencil. Chairman Steagall of the yet unorganized Banking & Currency Committee arose to explain to his bewildered colleagues how H. R. 1491 gave dictatorial banking power to the President, authorized impounding of all gold, and provided for a new currency issue. Members were told that only by voting this measure could the nation...
...grin. He was smoking a cigaret in a long ivory holder. Behind the President stood his three secretaries, Col. Louis McHenry Howe, Marvin Hunter Mclntyre, Stephen Tyree Early. Miss Marguerite Lehand, his personal secretary, sat in the window ledge. Near his elbow sat his stenographer, Grace Tully, with pad & pencil. Another stenographer, Henry Kannee, occupied one end of the desk...
...squeezed of oil and moisture were taking in the atmosphere's moisture; a vacuum box was taking its pressure; a bimetallic strip contracting at two different rates in the 4°-below-zero cold was taking its temperature. The three operations were being recorded by three minutely moving pencil arms on a cylinder revolving once every four hours. As he had done nearly every morning for more than six months, Pilot Colton would give his notes and the box (an aerometeorograph) to the Weather Bureau representative on the ground, collect his fee which depended on the height his instruments...
...Paramount). A Manhattan gambler, hard-pressed by the police, selects a hideaway by stabbing a time table with a pencil. In the sleepy village of Glendale he comes upon a beautiful librarian who is yearning for metropolitan excitements. He decides, on the flip of a coin, to marry her, takes her back to town with him. By the time the picture is over, hardboiled Babe Stewart is no longer a gambler. Reformed by his gay little librarian, he has voluntarily served three months in jail, is in a fair way to become-for him a step up in the world...