Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Orient approached the tiny station of Recea so did a local express train. Head on they crashed, directly in front of the station. One reeling locomotive toppled to right, the other to left. Thirty passengers and both engineers were instantly killed. Among the wounded was the Wahl Eversharp Pencil Co.'s foreign sales manager, Mr. Alexander Herschler of Rochester...
...time the wrecking crew arrived, cadets and passengers had helped themselves so successfully that it remained only to rush the more severely wounded to Bucharest and tidy up the track. Pencil Man Herschler was taken safely to the hospital...
Sending someone to vote in the name of a person known to be out of town. Folding the ballots so that, after they have been cast, they can be read at one peep and quickly "corrected." Concealing pencil-lead under one's finger nails to void ballots by extra marks. Dropping ballots behiA-3 the box instead of through the slot. "The more handling a ballot gets, the surer it is to turn up in favor of the other candidate. . . . And . . . you gotta make sure the ballot boxes are empty before the voting starts. Sometimes...
...must be all very discouraging. At times the Claw, or the Blue Pencil, or whoever the chief inquisitor is, must slump back in his chair and say: "After all, what is 'great'? It is fair to the members of the Crime Club, is it fair to posterity for me to sit here and select the 'great'? Man is fallible. What if some mute, inglorious, but potential Has Rohmer is smothered beneath my own relish of Mary Roberts Rinehart? When my last manuscript is read, and I meet the Great Judge of the manuscript of life, shall I have made...
When details of His Royal Highness' cartoon leaked out, last week, serious minded Britons recalled with indignation that during Chancellor Churchill's great Budget speech Edward of Wales sat in the gallery, just over the clock, with paper, pencil, and an innocent, virtuous air of taking notes...