Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spring night in 1889, a young man named Bernard Shaw sat in an Amsterdam theater watching the first performance of an opera by a Dutch composer named Simon van Milligen. In his report to the London Star, perspicacious young "Corno di Bassetto" (Shaw's pen name) was kind to the opera, but hooted at the company director's curtain speech about the triumphant establishment of a great national school of opera...
...practiced for weeks, preparing fair copies of Wordsworth's sonnet, Upon Westminster Bridge. The Etonians leaned heavily to 16th Century chancery-a tight, slanting, angular style brought by Vatican scribes to Elizabethan England, which avoids loops, keeps "t's" and "p's" short, uses a broad pen for contrasting thick and thin strokes...
...have always admired is indeed America's deepest wisdom, many will put the book down with the feeling they are being fobbed off with the obvious and the sententious. The biggest giveaway is Lin's acceptance of the late Ray Stannard Baker in his role-under the pen name David Grayson-of a horny-handed outdoor...
Little Johnny Adams turned to page 16 of the New England Primer. There it was, the picture of 16th Century John Rogers, the Dissenting martyr, burning gruesomely at the stake while his nine children looked on, their tears making a puddle at their feet. Eagerly Johnny took up his pen and in a moment a fine crop of cabbages sprouted on the well-irrigated spot...
...queen, spent 20 years on the book altogether. It is, she says simply, "the first [book] of any importance" on the subject. Retired from Wellesley College, where she taught English for about 25 years, Author Kelly is emphatic that there will be no more books from her pen. Says she: "Most people write too many things." Author Kelly has no need to write another work; her first, though less than a great biography, is no less than a very good one, done in a handsome, gracious style, quite to the queen's taste...