Word: penned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first or literal type would be Mr. Lougee's sketch of an abstract conception of "Pillar of Society." Here, he shows a strong, distinguished, hardened face in the foreground, with other smaller and shadier faces behind. The flight of the author's imagination has showed a shady pen in the background, indicating that the "pillar" of respectability may have made his riches through smuggling rum. The whole piece gives the impression of a sinful past to the strong central figure...
...think it's the most American thing one can do to wish them luck," said he. "In Puerto Rico a large part of the population is asking for at least the right to a plebiscite. It seems to me as an American that, speaking through the pen of the Eskimos, if the people of Puerto Rico want to be free, God bless them...
...Gaylord, Mich., black bears have been invading the pig pen at a CCC camp. They push the pigs out of the way and greedily eat the food from their trough...
...months Benito Mussolini has been mightily displeased with Britain for refusing to recognize fully his conquest of Ethiopia. Sullen antagonism flared into open hostility four days before the Coronation when II Duce, hoping that for once the pen might be mightier than the sword, issued orders and Italian newshawks in London, like a well-drilled Fascist Legion, route-marched for Rome and the entire Italian press clamped down a boycott on British news (TIME...
...debts be paid to creditors. Since Father Divine attained a following many a U. S. merchant, especially in the South, has testified that many a black man's long-forgotten debt has indeed been liquidated. In Harlem last week one Famaca Real, a Divine follower, took pen & paper, laboriously composed a letter. She had once purchased goods on credit in Pittsfield, Mass., could no longer recall the merchant's name. So to all the shop-keepers of that city Famaca Real wrote asking that one Sezar get in touch with her. Said...