Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time tending the delightful garden of his rural English home and knocking together small boats. Last week Major Douglas had had enough of the farce which has been going on in the Canadian province of Alberta in the name of his Social Credit (TIME, Sept. 2, et seq.). Taking pen in hand, the Major resigned his $10,000 per annum job as Alberta's adviser, canceled his proposed voyage to oversee the setting up in Alberta of Social Credit. This tended to leave stranded the rotund, frog-eyed school principal and radiorating lay preacher William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart...
...arts. Alas, dear one, it is an art we have lost today. Why? Because we are too busy. For example, Ciccro, should I want to communicate with Mussolini and tell him what an ass he is--even as you would tell Caesar--I need not take a reed pen and write on parchment and thence by messenger to Rome; no I need but take up an instrument and can speak to him direct. Does this amaze you? But I assure you, friend, what we gain in time, we lose in thoroughness...
...funeral procession. The militant mourners were young, cane-swinging stalwarts of the Action Franchise, supporters of the restoration as King of France of Monseigneur le Due de Guise, an exile in Belgium. The funeral was that of eminent French historian and publicist Jacques Bainville, a Royalist with a scoffing pen so sharp that he had been excommunicated by the Catholic Church, his corpse barred from burial in consecrated ground. The snout of Socialist Monnet's car incensed the mourning Royalists, three of whom, an insurance agent, a chauffeur and an architect, recognized Socialist Blum. The insurance agent shook...
...anonymous abuse, she thinks almost nothing of the threatening message that drops from the sleeve of her academic gown. But she remembers it again when a few months later she gets an urgent letter from the dean, begging her help. Shrewsbury College is being undermined by a mysterious poison-pen campaign, and the college morale is getting shaky. Harriet has not been long in residence when the outbreaks increase in violence. Fuses are blown, windows smashed, obscene decorations and threats are chalked on the conventual walls; a dummy is found hanging in the chapel. Unable to get to the bottom...
...opus from the pen of Thomas Wolfe ("Of Time and the River") was recently plagiarized by a student in an English composition course. No admirer of a best-selling author, the instructor rated Mr. Wolfe B minus...