Word: penned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sword on what you can get with a stroke of a pen...
...hours the President postponed his pilgrimage to Florida's fishing grounds; again for 24 hours; finally for 24 hours more. With pen instead of fishing rod in hand, he signed a proclamation urging citizens to contribute $3,000,000 for Red Cross flood relief. Around his desk assembled his Flood Emergency Committee: War Secretary Dern (rescues), Red Cross Admiral Gary T. Grayson (food, clothing, medicine), CCCommandant Fechner (rescues and patrol duty), WPAdministrator Hopkins (repair of dikes, sewers, water supplies), Treasury Secretary Morgenthau (finance). After three days Secretary Dern appeared with the announcement that the flood was receding. Next noon...
...father and mother, with occasional replies and explanatory comment, and never do these aristocratic characters step out of the role to which it pleased their forefathers to call them. Ripped from the context of a commoner's life these letters would still be unusual; from the pen of a viscount they seem extraordinary. Those who think that the good old breed of English aristocrat has vanished will realize after reading Antony that one example has only recently died and that at least one other is still alive...
Poise a fountain pen above the middle of a map of South America, jiggle the lever until a blob of ink falls and you have Paraguay, an irregular region about 200 miles wide and 300 miles long in the middle of the continent. For about a month now Paraguayans have not been able to get any uncensored mail or foreign newspapers. All they know is what they read in Paraguayan papers whose entire editorial staffs have been chased out and replaced by audacious, cheerful young Army men who idolize the country's great Chaco war-hero and new Dictator...
Things had been happening in England while he was away. The agitation for Reform of Parliamentary representation had reached a dangerous high. Party lines were crumbling, there was sinister talk of revolution, civil war. Ben saw his chance. He went more than ever into society, turned his pen to Tory pamphleteering, got himself favorably known by the right people, finally stood for Parliament. He was four times defeated before he got in, but since he had made the sacrosanct Carlton Club he knew he had practically ar rived. Meantime he had made another conquest, of the beautiful Henrietta...