Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Martin Luther was a prodigious writer; during his lifetime, more than 350 works came from his pen, including a translation of the Bible. But though more than 7,000,000 English-speaking Christians in North America call themselves Lutherans today, few have read Luther. The surprising reason: lack of translation...
...starring Humphrey Bogart. As it emerges from the Hollywood mill this time, the film has a theme nearly as silly as its new title: it argues that society should not put a confirmed criminal behind bars because he may resent it. Jack Palance, paroled after eight years in the pen, shows his exasperation by rapping assorted citizens on the skull with his gun butt and putting a slug into a guard who gets...
...producing a newspaper in Lahore. Says Carrington: "There had been nothing like his sudden rise to fame and fortune since Byron awoke one morning to find that the publication of Childe Harold had made him famous . . . 1890 saw the publication . . . of more than 80 short stories from his pen, many ballads and . . . a novel [The Light That Failed].'' Soon he was advising viceroys and was so famous that when he fell ill in New York (he married an American), crowds knelt in Seventh Avenue to pray for his recovery...
...late Reginald Marsh was a short, stocky, inconspicuous man, who for 34 memorable years moved quietly and almost invisibly about Manhattan with sketch pad and fountain pen. When he died last year at 56, the graphic record he left behind told what he had best loved and captured: the big city with its derelict Bowery bums, jaded burlesque queens and their wise-guy following of touts and sports, the day-to-day lives of Manhattan's anonymous masses, and everywhere-lolling on the beaches, powdering their noses in the mirror of a subway gum machine or just striding, windblown...
...concurrent one-to-15-year terms in the State Penitentiary for burglary and larceny after he interrupted Judge Thomas J. O'Connor, who was about to sentence him to the Mansfield Reformatory, pleaded: "If you don't mind, Your Honor, I'd rather go to the pen; those young crooks at the reformatory might have a bad influence...