Word: penned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conservation Commission. Three years ago he helped launch a 25-year plan for restoring Iowa's game, gave Iowa State College $9,000 from his own pocket to develop it. At a rough & tumble hearing in Washington last autumn "Ding's" tongue, agile and stinging as his pen, nearly carried the day for duck protectionists against an overwhelming number of non-protectionists led by hard-driving President Thomas Hambly Beck of P. F. Collier & Son Co. Few months later "Ding," no grudge-bearer, joined Publisher Beck and Professor Aldo Leopold of University of Wisconsin on President Roosevelt...
...always preferred being a man without a country rather than become a citizen of a foreign nation. Feeling as I do, I would not like my children to be citizens of any other country than America. My mother is now almost 73 years of age. ... A stroke of your pen, Mr. President, could give her a few years of happiness. ... I think, Mr. President, you will agree with me when I say that 14 years of exile is a far greater punishment than five years in a military prison." The President received this plea last week from the namesake...
Dickens began to write sketches of London life, signed them with the pen-name 'Boz." The sketches were so popular that the proprietors of the Morning Chronicle regarded him with an increasingly kindly eye. One of them, who had three daughters, was glad to bestow his eldest, Catherine, on rising young Journalist Dickens. Publishers Chapman & Hall suggested Dickens write a series of humorous pieces about a club of Cockney sportsmen, to be illustrated by Artist Robert Seymour. After drawing seven pictures Seymour shot himself; Dickens got another'artist (Hablot K. Browne). With the publication of The Posthumous Papers...
Author Dickens took to fame like a duck to water, working harder than ever. One popular success followed another from his ready pen-Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop. No plodding cultivator of a thankless Muse, Dickens enjoyed not only the fruits of his work but the work itself. He described himself at work on Martin Chuz-zlewit: "In a bay-window in a one-pair sits, from nine o'clock to one. a gentleman with rather long hair and no neckcloth, who writes and grins, as if he thought he was very funny indeed...
...soft-eyed young rabbits, all dark grey, hopped nonchalantly about their pen in Harvard's Laboratory of General Physiology last week as many a biologist discussed their twisted pedigree. They were living evidence of what two experimenters had reported as "the first certain demonstration that mammalian eggs can be fertilized in vitro...