Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FROM the pen of one of England's foremost men of letters comes an "Excursion into Autobiography" more startling in its frankness and more comprehensive in its scope than any similar book for many years. J. B. Priestley gives his readers an amazingly intimate self-portrait in "Midnight on the Desert" which stands out as one of the most revealing of all autobiographies...
...Prince Alpha," a disconnected and disjointed babble from the pen of a visionary Freshman, Harry Brown, rambles on for four long pages to come at last to the greatly enlightening closing statement, "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I'm coming to be a man . . . " Jeffrey Fuller '38 contributes a well-written book review in the form of an essay, on Ernest J. Simmons' newly published work, "Pushkin." The article discusses the book from the point of view of its own content, and contains a criticism of Pushkin himself...
...Kipling's last parade petered out before the finish, for death had halted it; but there were enough of his veterans in the march-past to give the cheering crowds the old thrill. Even his many enemies watched curiously as the late great Rudyard Kipling, eyes right, steel pen at the salute as always, passed himself in review...
...Tales from the Hills). Other Indian papers began to buy his stuff; soon there were half a dozen paperbacked books signed Kipling on Indian railway bookstalls. By now Kipling had some money saved up. He turned his back on India and apprenticeship, returned to England to dip his fiery pen into the Thames. Almost immediately the Thames took fire. At 24 Kipling was the literary man of the hour. He cannily steered clear of cliques, ran foul of no colleagues. "I have never directly or indirectly criticized any fellow-craftsman's output, or encouraged any man or woman...
...Chicago Widow Ella M, Rainey realized $10,000 from the auction of the library of her late husband, Speaker of the House Henry Thomas Rainey. The quill pen with which Woodrow Wilson signed the U. S. Declaration of War against Germany brought...