Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When this handsomely engraved official invitation from the Inaugural Committee's Chairman Gary T. Grayson turned up on his desk one day last week, President Roosevelt let out a roar of delight, seized a pen, scrawled across the bottom a note to Chief W. E. Rockwell of the White House Social Bureau: "Please regret this invitation. I will be too busy...
With another roar, the President again took pen in hand, squiggled across the bottom a note to Rear Admiral Grayson: "I have re-arranged my engagements & work & think I may be able to go. Will know definitely...
...immortal Bergner appears this time in a celebrated piece from the pen of the Immortal Bard. For the stage effects, the minor characters, and for the pleasure of rehearing Shakespeare's poetry it is well worth seeing. By and large, as theatre, it does...
...gift was a miniature pen knife made from a piece of platinum steel produced by Faraday over a hundred years ago. Together with the knife, Sir Robert enclosed a letter requesting that a penny be paid in return, citing the age-honored fear that should a pointed instrument be given away, a quarrel is sure to ensue between the two parties involved. President Conant said that he will comply with the request...
...another. Had Phil La Follette been a Tory Governor, the outcry from U. S. Liberals would undoubtedly have been prodigious, for along with his smooth exterior and the careful polish which has removed all trace of his native Queen City, Mo.. Glenn Frank has. with facile tongue and pen, built up for himself a shining reputation as a clear-sighted, forward-looking, modern-minded Thinker...