Word: penned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this scrivening and get out on more camping trips among the people. "You may count upon my steady support," said Linlithgow, sounding as if he meant it, then added with wise humor: "For you District Officers it remains abundantly true that the tent is mightier than the pen." Indian journalists, accustomed like English journalists to official hauteur and snubs, imperceptibly warmed to a new Viceroy who said: "Like the rest of us, newspaper men cannot be expected to make bricks without straw. . . . I intend to do my utmost to give them such assistance as properly...
...children are taught to see in His Majesty the King & Emperor. Last week it became the function of Lord Linlithgow to see that each of the Indian Princes who must sign a so-called "Instrument of Accession" in order for his State to enter the Indian Federation actually takes pen in hand and signs. For this purpose the Viceroy last week sent on tour as his personal emissaries to each of India's potentates three resolute political officers on special mission. Respectively the three are an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman, namely: handsome, epigrammatic Sir Courtenay Latimer, crusty...
Famed is the Half-Way Book in which a bed-ridden Class Secretary, the late Clarence Day, explored with pen & pencil the Class of 1896, two score years after its graduation from Yale. Was College Worth While?, more factual in matter, more aggressive in manner, shatters the sentimental aura that overhangs most U. S. college reunions and classbooks...
...White House), Herbert Hoover, the du Ponts, Carter Glass, WPA, the Federal Reserve System. He won cheers for Thomas Jefferson. Father Coughlin. Social Justice. Next Father Coughlin delivered a "schoolroom lecture" on economics, finance and the iniquity of the Federal Reserve System for creating false money "with a fountain pen and a piece of paper." The Convention's chairman, Cleveland Lawyer Sylvester McMahon, pronounced it "the greatest speech ever delivered on this mundane sphere.'' Following the day, the Union was "democratized" by the unanimous adoption of a constitution providing that its president should be elected in convention...
Every so often TIME reaches great journalistic heights in articles on exceedingly complex subjects that are made crystal-clear under TIME'S adroit pen. The article "Goal Behind Steel" (TIME, July 20) was one such...