Word: penciling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annotations were those of Shaw's father-in-law, Horace Payne-Townshend of Derry County, Cork. Satirist Shaw has never read the "Essay," and he does "not disfigure books by underlining them." His practice "is to make a very light dot in the margin with a pencil-tip and note the page number on the end of a slip of paper...
...Lead Pencils. Higher duties asked and objected to. Nathan Bilder of A. W. Faber Pencil and Rubber Goods Co. declared: "It certainly is a display of extreme selfishness when an industry that leads the world and exports more than twice the value of competing importations asks for higher duties to exclude importations amounting to only 2% of consumption...
...Significance. Chesterton's pencil sketches add immeasurably to the fun? "Lady Caroline Balcomb plumbing the Depths of European Affairs" through a lorgnette; "Richard Mallard expressing his incapacity for surprise." The text is a sparkling satire on "our old and complex society," and a bitter burlesque of politics in general and female politicians in particular. It is also an excellent travesty on the standard detective story. The slight plot?international intrigue in the later 20th century?is a mockery, and the countless detectives a taunt...
Fling book and pencil with a wild desire...
...book, My Life. Her will was filed last week in Manhattan by her adopted daughter, Irma. It had been written six years ago in Moscow, just before she left by airplane for Paris on a honeymoon. At the chance suggestion of a friend, she scribbled it in pencil on a page torn out of a little notebook. It said: "This is my last will and testament. In case of my death I leave my entire property to my husband, Serge Yessenin. In case of simultaneous death, then such property to go to my brother, Augustin Duncan...