Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president of an independent Southwest Government fled the province. Wired one officer to dismayed General Chen: "Despite the danger of having my heart dissected and my eyes gouged out by you, I hereby dare to send you this final word of my loyalty. Alas, as I hold my pen, how fast the tears stream down my cheeks. I respectfully entreat you to carefully examine my words and forgive my impoliteness." What had brought Chen's officers to this impoliteness was the arrival in Chen's camp of some 200 Japanese military advisers and airplane pilots...
...Deal, Manager Hamilton snapped: "Mr. White will have one vote out of the 18 from Kansas. Nobody is authorized to speak for Landon but Landon himself." Nonetheless Editor White was named Kansas' member of the convention's Resolutions Committee, thereby became wielder of the Landon pen in the writing of the platform. Constitution-loving Candidate Borah denounced the amendment proposal as a "matter of political expediency." But it remained a prime subject of convention talk, especially after Herbert Hoover paused at Ogden, Utah, on his way to Cleveland, announced that...
...excerpt, printed by the Crimson, from the editorial by Dr. Jung certainly enters to Nazi sentiment and in juxtaposition with such trash as flowed from Professor Goring's pen is enough to suggest that the scientific conscience of the great Zurich psychologist is not inflexible. Anyhow, those who are on the alert for Nordic bullies or who, for one reason or another, wish to discredit Dr. Jung, have seized upon this solitary leaf from this published works in order to prove that he is unworthy of Harvard honors. As far as I know there are no other examples of this...
...months ago President Roosevelt took pen in hand, wrote a letter to Representative Samuel Billingsley Hill of Washington...
...gone to seek his literary fortune abroad. When Yeats and his friends started their movement for a national theatre, Moore returned to help, and he and Yeats collaborated on a play. Moore admired Yeats but Yeats looked down on Moore, writes about him with a malice-sharpened pen. He accuses Moore of continual tarradiddles ("He was all self and yet had so little self that he would destroy his reputation, or that of some friend, to make his audience believe that the story running in his head at the moment had happened, had only just happened"). In appearance Moore...