Word: penned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night & Day. It was one thing for the President to close all the banks in the land with one pen-flourish; it was quite another thing for his Secretary of the Treasury to get them open again. The machinery for such an operation was enormous and Mr. Woodin had scant knowledge of it. Day after day he strove to master new details at his cluttered desk while harassed bankers gathered in his outer office from every quarter of the country to clamor for Treasury concessions, instructions. Night after night he worked until 2 o'clock at the White House...
...Hollywood, where studios were only slightly damaged, Maurice Chevalier was recording a love song beside a pool of swans. He & swans instantly stopped work. Marlene Dietrich was autographing a photograph for a friend. The pen made a wild sweep. Miss Dietrich dated the picture to commemorate the occasion. Carole Lombard was flung from a fitting stand in the wardrobe room...
...boar, under the invigorating influence of a comely sow who makes eyes at him from the next pen, wins the blue ribbon. Wayne, Abel's son, takes revenge on a loquacious spieler who had gulled him the year before, but immediately falls under the hypnotic influence of an acrobat in the show. Margy Frake meets Pat Gilbert, a newspaper man from the big city, whose influence with the judges wins the prizes for Mrs. Frake's pickles and mincemeat. Thoroughly satisfied with the week's entertainment, the Frakes drive home to another year of hog-raising and gloating over their...
Squiggle-squiggle went the President's pen as he signed bill after bill. When he came to the one appropriating $1,083,567,534 for independent offices, he paused, stood up, read parts of it, tossed it aside. Then he sat down. The scratch of his pen blended with the blurred bumble of voices coming through the swinging doors to the Senate chamber. A second bill went into the discard-a last-minute measure by South Carolina's Smith providing for a government cotton pool in return for acreage reduction. Herbert Hoover still had a mind...
...PEN THESE LINES TO MINNY HANFF...