Word: penmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Penmen. Great progenitor of the pen-and-ink school was the virtuoso, Charles Dana Gibson, whose crisp and incredibly thoroughbred characters lived so vividly in the old Life that in 1920 Gibson was able to buy the magazine for $1,000,000. President of the Society of Illustrators from 1904-05 and from 1909-20, Gibson was honored at last week's exhibition by a retrospective room full of Gibson Girls. Now 71 and long retired, high-collared, big-chinned "Dana" Gibson paints all day in a 59th Street studio but not a soul is permitted...
Like those expert penmen who can inscribe the Lord's Prayer on the back of a stamp, Author Graves has written a whole close-knit modern comedy on the back of his. He has fun with his story, and so do readers, unless they are the kind who must have sugar on their salad. Idealists should think twice about reading The Antigua Stamp; realists will quite possibly read it twice. For readers who are accustomed to find their way quickly to the side of the angels, it may be a shock to discover that in this book there...
...Drys should thank you for saying "crafty," acknowledging a mental process too subtle for your analysis. Every Dry will hope TIME'S clever penmen may live long enough to master the method and secret of Mrs. Boole. That craft has been good journalistic policy and may be again. Your attitude toward Mrs. Boole's policies and projects will always give her an advantage over you; for she is not working for her own profit or advantage...