Word: pencilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consumes in a day costs less than two bob [40?]." His presents are far from lavish. Last month his British adviser, Sir Walter Monckton, sent Richard Beaumont, a young secretary, to Hyderabad for some papers. As a gesture of gratitude the Nizam handed Beaumont a present-a $2.50 pen & pencil...
...made a rule," he says, "that no editorial should be longer than a lead pencil." His brevity sometimes results in editorials so cryptic that readers dub it the "daily puzzle page." Once a politician, after reading a Wallace editorial about himself, asked a staffer: "Is he for me or against me?" The reporter couldn...
...Night Managing Editor Mason Peters, 33, a Navy veteran, was hauled up from the police beat by Mrs. Patterson. When asked how it felt to be a millionaire, he brushed it off: "Oh, I'm not interested in the money. It's my pencil-my career in the newspaper-that interests...
...Mlle. Mala thinks it is too bad that most men shy away from makeup. Women need a dark foundation to disguise "blotches and blemishes," plenty of shadow for double chins, two different shades of brown powder on the cheekbones, non-running mascara on the eyelids, a touch of eyebrow pencil. Lipstick depends on lighting: Mlle. Mala wore blue on her first TV appearance, last week had switched to brown...
...educated pencil, patented by Professor Samuel Lerner of Brown University. Its transparent cylinder works like a slide rule, figuring up cube roots and trigonometry as well as mere arithmetic...