Word: penmanship
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...Haley offers plenty of tips on how to be successful at contesting. She follows the rules strictly, making sure that the cards, paper and envelopes are the proper size. Mrs. Haley went to East High School in Columbus and was good at spelling and penmanship. She tries to tailor her entries to the known preferences of the judges. Over the years she has become familiar with their likes and dislikes by reading the winning entries and studying the advice in the contest newsletters. Says she: "Some want cleverness, others want simple, homespun ideas...
...glorious performance also put in proper perspective the success of flash-in-the-pans like Bruce Lietzke, Tom Purtzer, former NCAA champ Curtis Strange, and Fuzzy Zoeller, who finished third at Inverrary. The latter's real name is Frank Urwin Zoeller but because of his poor penmanship, he took to signing his autograph F.U.Z. and the nickname stuck...
Open Letters. Richard Nixon's handwriting is just terrible, and so was J.F.K.'s. The penmanship of most Americans is not much better. According to the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association, many thousands of federal tax returns are held up each year because the IRS cannot make out the pigeon-track figures on the tax forms. Illegible handwriting, claims W.I.M.A., is responsible for annual U.S. business losses of more than $100 million in garbled records, billing mistakes and unreadable bookkeeping entries. W.I.M.A., whose members make pens, pencils and felt-tipped markers, has launched a campaign to battle the epidemic...
...human cartoon. Allen, playing the master criminal of his youthful fantasies, stands by while a bank teller tries to decipher his scrawl: "I have a gub." The holdup man insists that the word is "gun"; the teller consults higher authorities, thereby spiking the heist. Even Allen's penmanship, it turns out, is masochistic. Occasionally there was a flat, tasteless line, but audiences howled, and the film made money. Allen took...
...need not apply to the bar of New York, went on to become a civil engineer, a friend of Ulysses S. Grant when the future President was a clerk in a harness store, served with Grant from Vicksburg to Richmond as his military secretary, and because of his excellent penmanship wrote out the terms of surrender at Appomattox at Grant's request. After the War, Brigadier General Parker became Grant's Commissioner of Indian Affairs, a position he held until the combined political pressure from the land speculators, angered by the "peace policy" Donehogawa had instituted, and the Christian missionaries...