Word: pencilers
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When Governor Smith takes out pencil and paper to cast up his chances, he probably begins by weighing his chances to get the votes which Woodrow Wilson got in 1916. Mr. Wilson needed 266 votes...
...Fogg Art Museum, however, a building which good vagabonds should visit every week and other members of the college at least twice a term, offers an exhibition of reproductions of some of Pisanello's drawings. This master of pencil work is very little known because of the small number of finished paintings he produced, but for the vagabond who would wander outside the usual pale of masterpiece found in every hallway he presents a variety of work showing a very interesting stage in the development of draftsmanship...
...embattle them and watch with glee through a magnifying glass. Or, feeling more domestic, he would catch flies, throw them into the web of his first-string fighter and relish the savage banquet. Drawing was his polite accomplishment, an amateur skilled in cartooning his friends' oddities with a pencil. Struck by the refractory habits of light, he composed "A Treatise on the Rainbow...
...Dynamite is as harmless as a lead pencil if you know how to handle it," said one Thomas Morris of East Portal, Col., as he stuffed a few unimpressive-looking sticks into the groins of James Peak. Next day, in the White House, President Coolidge approached a golden telegraph key, applied thereto his right forefinger. The stimulus of a spark danced across the continent. A few feet of granite were blasted out of their native bed and James Peak had a hole completely through its middle. Outside the hole, safely away from flying granite, Governor William H. Adams shook hands...
...sign a document saying I am not to blame, I am ready to kill that person without hesitation, drink two bottles of beer afterwards, go to the cinema, and then give myself up to the police." From her small purse Zina Jukova produced a bit of paper and a pencil. Pursing her lips, she wrote. "Draw that long Finnish knife you have, Sergei!" she laughed. "Here is your paper." Trembling, Student Slovochotov drew his knife. The girl, still laughing, unbuttoned her bodice with one hand, threw back her head, and pouted her lips to receive a kiss. . . . Some hours later...