Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government, issued invitations, but accepted none from the other three. The first night, he had the Russians to dinner, greeting them with Mamie on the stone terrace overlooking the lake. He chatted with Zhukov, after dinner surprised the Russian by producing two wedding presents for his daughter-a desk pen inscribed "From the President of the United States, July 1955," and a portable U.S. radio -which he had hastily ordered after he learned of the marriage that morning from Khrushchev...
...long police record and a vast fund of anecdotes about his scrapes with the law. Besides, both men came from the same Pernambuco home town. In no time at all murderer and thief were swapping yarns, telling jokes, helping each other pass the dreary days in the Pernambuco state pen...
...warns enthusiastic musical illiterates not to "expect a rush of composers suddenly to sit down behind desks with cigarettes dangling out of their mouths and begin pouring out a ream of symphonies on these machines. The Music Writer will simply be used instead of a pen when it comes to making finished copies...
...other detective stories are dwarfed by this one, in which the great dramatist himself supplies a wealth of clues . . . When the true author is known, the meaning of the plays is enhanced and their vitality surpasses anything yet devised by the mind or pen of man. The author, Edward de Vere [Earl of Oxford], was determined that his truth would sooner or later be known-" 'Gainst death and all oblivious enmity . . ." DOROTHY AND CHARLTON OGBURN New York City
...Georges Auguste Escoffier, two of his disciples, Chefs Herbodeau and Thalamas, dish up the first full serving of the old master that Americans have ever been offered. Though better at stirring a sauce than pushing a pen, they know what they are writing about, and have garnished a life of Escoffier with an appraisal of his historic role in civilization's only indispensable art-cooking...