Word: penciling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Winnie" was madly cheered by his supporters. Smiling broadly, he rushed down the room, shook hands with his wife who had helped him in his Rooseveltian struggle. A celebration began. The counting officer said nothing, but kept working with pencil and paper. He added again, and announced that a mistake had been made: Otho Nicholson had won by a majority of 43 votes. The ballot stood at Nicholson (Conservative), 8,187; Churchill (Independent), 8,144; Brockway (Labor), 6,156; Duckers (Liberal...
...desires that the prize be held and awarded to the person writing the best essay on "Why it is a stinging insult to call a man Delcevare." Most of the entries, however, have come from married women and on all sorts of paper, some scrawled in pencil on scraps, others neatly written on the best grade of highly scented vellum...
...affected more through his senses than his imagination. Dives never saw Lazarus. Nor did he, clothed in purple and fine linen, have the imagination to conceive of the pain of nakedness and sores. The undergraduate buttoning his overcoat as he hurries to a ten o'clock, may buy a pencil from the old woman crouching on the corner, but the rush of his daily activities blinds him to the starving students of distant Europe who subsist solely on bowls of soup and a tremendous inspiration to learn. Could those poor students march through Harvard Square as classes...
...Munich there was an elderly won an who, before the war had had an ample living income form government bonds valued at 30.000 marks Last summer, when she was forced to sell the depreciated securities they realized barely enough to buy a pencil...
...think: "Why, yes-I guess I will." You remember, vaguely, bookplates you have known-heavy engravings of armorial bearings in large volumes bound in calf-cute, little bookplates, nauseatingly quaint, with florid mock-Old-English lettering, " From among Ye Bookes of Cleo. S. Eiswasser "-sentences written with a damp pencil on the title pages of schoolbooks ("If my name you wish to see-," "If this book should chance to roam," etc.)- and shudder. Then, perhaps, you happen to go to such an exhibition of bookplates as was recently held at the New York Public Library, and realize that there...