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Word: penned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith have written music exactly suitable to the theme that has required three years of labor to produce. Perhaps what makes this a masterpiece of cinema entertainment, in addition to the color medium and settings, is the actual creation of seven individual characters, all of them dwarfs made with pen and ink, yet all tremendously human...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/12/1938 | See Source »

...Shakspere-plainly written across it. For 19 months Professor Lewis pored over his find. Chemical analysis proved to his satisfaction that the ink was Elizabethan. Microscopic study put, the paper in the same period. Photographic enlargements permitted minute comparisons with known Shakespearian signatures. Ultraviolet photographs established the type of pen used; infra-red photographs showed no tracings beneath the ink. Shakespeare himself, said Professor Lewis, wrote that name. But where the paper came from, who owned it, how it reached Salt Lake City, what happened to the rest of the document, he could not or would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eighth Signature | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Placed first in line, and it would seem after honor, are ten drawings from the Italian masters of the Cinquecento. Studies of heads or hands, figures or groups they are small and delicately executed in the exacting mediums of the pen or the silverpoint. But all represent the beginnings of monumental works, religious paintings by such masters as Raphael and Perugino, Mantegna and Filippano Lippi. Of the sixteenth century there are included only two. They are a crayon and much larger in scale; a study by Veronese and a finished portrait by Luini of a young woman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

...fast as pen can trot, young writers build...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Critic Finds 'Sound Supplants Sense' in Work of Hillyer, Boylston Professor | 1/21/1938 | See Source »

...sacrifice, the spirit of brotherly love and humanity that fails as soon as it is put to the specific test. Even God is called to account, but He is absolved by the tragic mother's denunciation of her own species. The Catholic Church does not escape O'Casey's pen unscathed, but the implication is that its oppression is be-wailed only by those doomed to misery in any case by their own impotence...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/5/1938 | See Source »

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