Word: penned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Wagner was seized by armed Klansmen as he tried to cover their secret meeting in a barn not far from Baton Rouge. He was forced to remove his trousers, lie in a poison ivy patch, where he was beaten with a belt before being shoved into a dog pen on a truck. Beaten again, he was released under a threat of death if he reported the incident...
...with carroty hair and many of the strong-minded qualities of the young women in the pages of Chekhov and Turgenev. The honeymooners spent their time translating The Theory and Practice of Trade Unionism, by the British Socialist sages Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Of necessity, every revolutionary needed a pen name, and Vladimir chose his: Lenin, presumably from the Lena River, the longest and one of the coldest in Siberia...
...their names are something that S. J. Perelman would love to give a droll roll on his tongue. They include Bradwell Tolliver, Lettice Poindexter, Gomp ("Frog-eye") Drumm and Mortimer ["Jingle Bells") Spurlin. Everybody seems to go by a nickname in Fiddlersburg; even the electric chair in the local pen is called "Sukie...
...Eisenhower was a pair of ears pierced by a disingenuous grin, and Kennedy-well, some semblance of Kennedy could always be drawn under that hummock of hair. To such lean and telling presidential portraiture, editorial cartoonists for the nation's newspapers bring a keen eye, a sharp pen and a drop or two of acid ink. Now they are honing their art on a new subject whose face might have been designed for their drawing boards. But how successfully have they captured Lyndon B. Johnson...
...eighty-second year when he died; yet we could have better spared a younger man. For, though he had physically slowed somewhat in recent years, his mind was as keen and probing as ever, and his old-fashioned dipped pen (he loathed the typewriter) just as active and skilled. In his last months, he was revising the manuscript of the last novel of All Souls, an eight-volume roman-fleuve to rank with Proust's and Rolland...