Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to keep his creative faculties unsullied by routine, Weaver leaves management of his cluttered office to two young assistants-La Verne N. Laseau and A. Marsden Thompson. Rather a diligent extrovert in his writings, he assumes such pen-names as Fargan Hathway, makes a point of quoting Baltasar y Morales Gracián, a 17th Century Spanish Jesuit. Buck Weaver's screwiest activities are occasional booklets he prints at his own expense. He justifies them as outlets for his inhibitions, as surface rashes on his emotional ego. Sample paragraph based on Olive Schreiner story of the "Hunter...
...again endowed a chorus with that inimitable touch of his, and Jo Mielziner has designed sets that are as magnificent as they are fascinating. Some of Irene Sharaff's costumes are superb and some of them are the most atrociously ugly harnesses that ever sprang from a designer's pen...
...ruckus even drew some notice from the pontifical pen of New York Times Music Critic Olin Downes. Said Pundit Downes: "A four-voiced fugue, in the best Benny Goodman style, would be something, though just what defies the imagination...
...styles. One point is uniform, however, for the Germans almost without exception are unusual draftsmen. The use of light and shadow in works such as the nudes of Georg Kolbe and Lismann brings out solid forms with fine clarity. The sharp delineation of line in etchings, woodcuts, and pen sketches creates lively real results...
...Irvington, N.J., Police Judge Thomas J. Holleran let off with a lecture on "Americanism" two teen-age boys, one of German, the other of Italian descent, who vented their political passions by pen-knifing a swastika on the left forearm of Bernard Cohen...