Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wasn't on June 17, 1876, that "you fellows beat General Custer." The President was wrong. Custer's last stand at the Little Big Horn was on June 25, 1876; his adversaries were the Sioux. The three Indians, nervously eying the President's still-poised pen, hurriedly denied all connection with the massacre...
...whose retirement in 1932 has given him time to mull, skimmed through magazines and newspapers. His prize cliché: the phrase claiming world supremacy. In Tide last week, he listed 52. Among them: "World's most widely used sound-conditioning materials" (Celotex); "World's most personal fountain pen" (Ester-brook); "World's greatest show of guaranteed values for home" (Fruit of the Loom); "World's only vacuum cleaner that cleans four ways at once" (Lewyt); "World's most advanced refining developments" (Mobilgas); "World's largest cordage laboratory" (Plymouth); "World's largest-selling denture...
...bullyboy in the paramilitary nationalist Freikorps, and as a poison-pen rightist journalist, Dertinger helped kill off the democratic Weimar Republic. When Hitler came in, he became an official in Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, with a big picture of Von Ribbentrop on his desk. Then when the Russians arrived, Georg confided to a friend, "I will walk the tightrope over Communism as surely as I did over Naziism...
Daphne du Maurier, 46, is one of the slickest pros now producing bestseller belles-lettres. She dips her pen into the inkpot of romance, melodrama or suspense and aims it like a dagger at the heart of the defenseless reader, who is usually quite willing to hold still...
Under Separate Cover. In Janesville, Wis., the Parker Pen Co. received a note from a school principal: "I want to thank you for your kindness when we visited your splendid plant . . . I am returning two fountain pens two of my students picked up while we were making the tour...