Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University Professors met in St. Louis for the purpose, among others, of revising its list of "ineligible" universities " colleges. The institutions which spot this list are the black sheep of U. S. education, and the A. A. U. P. will not accept new members from their faculties. The "ineligible" pen contained five such black sheep. DePauw (Greencastle, Ind.), Brenau (Gainesville, Ga.) and Harris Teachers College of St. Louis were penned up because their respective presidents had arbitrarily dismissed professors-in most cases outspoken liberals. So was Rollins (Winter Park, Fla.), which considers itself to have been shabbily treated, contends that...
...they could not stay away from the big city. O Haru's sister had gone there and was so lost to shame that she got a job as waitress at a café. O Haru's father went there, and returned with an alarm clock, a fountain pen, and a traveling bag for his wife. Noboru went there, to try to reclaim O Haru's sister, but she had got out of the way of saying "Ma-a!" and "O-i!" so they did not have much to talk about. Noboru went home, like a sensible fellow...
...radical." Conspicuous at the banquet board as he passed the olives was the handsome, flowing stock of Mohawk Carpet Mills Chairman George W. McNeir (see cut). Other business Congressmen were du Pont's President Lammot du Pont; Atwater Kent's A. At water Kent; W. A. Sheaffer Pen's W. A. Sheaffer; Kohler Co.'s Walter J. Kohler; Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden; Adman Bruce Barton; Camelman S. Clay Williams; Kodakman William G. Stuber; Soapman Richard R. Deupree: Woolman Lionel J. Noah; President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; President Ray Wantz of Rockford...
...that 1,000 of the richest women in the realm will fail to buy the new gowns they would have worn to Londonderry House, with a consequent loss "to the trade" which they set roundly at $500,000. Baffled by Baldwin, Lady Londonderry was expected to return to her pen which has already produced such dainty books as The Magic Inkpot...
...happy day soon came when Leslie's Weekly paid him $40 for a pen & ink sketch. Shortly thereafter the U. S. S. Maine went down in Havana harbor and Publisher Hearst's war with Spain was on. At a contracted salary of $200 per week from Leslie's Weekly and Scribner's Magazine, 25-year-old Howard Chandler Christy sailed for Cuba on the same transport with Col. Leonard Wood, Lieut.-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders. The 400 drawings he sent back from the front are possibly Christy's best work to date...