Word: penciling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...salute of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh to President Calvin Coolidge. Flying from Pierre, S. Dak., to Cheyenne, Wyo., Colonel Lindbergh had come to drop a card to the President. The card was an engraved announcement that he was touring the country to promote commercial aviation. It was signed, in pencil scrawl, "Charles A. Lindbergh...
...unique in that it tells what the editors (who sign the checks) want. Long-maned poets, arriving to discover how to make poetry pay, will be told that poetry never pays.* People who "think they would like to write" will find themselves rudely face to face with a pencil and a sheet of blank pa per. People who have written a lot, and badly, will be asked to stop writing. Those who have the "literary impulse" and show some signs of obeying that impulse successfully will be instructed how to obey it profitably. The aim is to save a writer...
Excuse me for writing with a pencil. We are forbidden to write and this letter is to be smuggled out. That's Haiti under American rule...
...bottles were placed butt on cap "they would make a pencil of glass 63 miles high." They contained sufficient drink "to supply every man, woman and child in Oregon with a glassful." The glassful would be cold, for the freight cars were refrigerated. They made up "the first solid train of trademarked merchandise ever to pull out of New England...
Beside him knelt Professor John MacNeil, an old friend, onetime Minister of Education. His pencil took down nine words: "I leave everything to my wife and baby daughter." Although Mr. O'Higgins' strength was ebbing he was able to sign...