Word: penned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection of paintings and pen drawings by Randolph Caldecott will be on exhibition during this month in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library. Caldecott, an English illustrator of the nineteenth century, excelled in portraying English country life. The pen sketches are largely of hunting scenes, while the paintings are of a variety of subjects including pastoral scenes and some excellent portraits of dogs...
...headed Governor Huey Pierce Long from a sound sleep in the executive mansion at Baton Rouge. He sat up, rubbed his eyes, looked at his watch. It said 1:40 a. m. He said, "Come in." And in trooped legislative clerks, secretaries, photographers, newshawks. The Governor was handed a pen and a bill just passed by the night-sitting Legislature...
...disturbance than working during the day." He would arise about 4 p. m. at his Cherokee Park home, go to town in the evening, to a branch of his National Bank. There he would sit at the desk of a vice president and, with barely the scratch of a pen, direct his myriad affairs political, financial, mercantile. And there he would issue occasional orders for his paper. There, at midnight or later, his business associates would have to go if they wanted to talk with him. After his banks failed it was observed that Publisher Brown went nearly every night...
...were all the wells (except salt water producers) in the State's prorated area. Exempt were "strippers" which produce less than 25 bbl. per day. Hardest hit by the order were the flush fields of Oklahoma. City (30 sq. mi.) and Greater Seminole (40 sq. mi.). With one pen squiggle Governor Murray had reduced the daily flow of Oklahoma oil from 425,000 bbl. to less than 150.000. To newsmen he declared: "The State's natural resources must be preserved and the price of oil must go to $1. Now don't ask me any more damned...
...Straw Pen is the August choice of the Book League of America...