Word: pencilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that it approached Picasso? Never. Maybe the whole trouble was that, unlike those six other paintings, it had not been accorded the privilege of decorating two full pages in "Life." Or perhaps if that critic from the New York newspaper hadn't leaned down to pick up the pencil he had dropped just as he was passing the piece, he would have dedicated a few valuable cliches to it in the Sunday edition...
...came to our next meeting at Phillips Brooks House, and with the air of a professional newspaper reporter whipped out a pencil and notebook. ten of us were seated at the round-table. Our Harvard junior manipulated his pencil. He never spoke. The function of a boll-weevil is not to speak but to bore. After the meeting members remarked to me that they were not being favorably attracted to the Harvard student. The impression which his notebook had made on me had not been entirely pleasant, but I reasoned that here was a student accustomed to take notes...
...came to several meetings, punctually whipping out his pencil and notebook. His monumental silence, continued, from meeting to meeting, promised no help to a movement based chiefly on language. We tried to be human towards him, learned to call him by his first name, but we never overcame our repugnance to the notebook...
...very nervous and very worried--somehow or other he knew that he'd never look well amid the mysterious implements of a boudoir table. Eau de Cologne bothered him, and eyebrow pencil embarrassed him with its frank fraudulence. And yet there he was destined to lie-surrounded by the rouge pots and the powder puffs. It was a sad fate, but it was inevitable, and Vag believed with Confucius that the inevitable must be accepted...
...Government is considering drastic steps to keep information from the enemy. The Ministry of Information last week lent gaiety to this campaign. For distribution throughout the land it published a series of posters designed to make talkative Britons "tongue conscious." They show a furtive, ubiquitous little Adolf Hit ler, pencil & paper in hand, listening in to British conversations everywhere: curled up under a bus seat, in a luggage rack, against a telephone booth, under a restaurant table...