Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record the event for posterity a horrified Ickes press-agent spied, clinging to one Indian's ancestral costume, what seemed to be a thoroughly anachronistic price tag. In a flurry of embarrassment the chieftain's tag was ripped off while Secretary Ickes, covering up, seized a pen and hurriedly squiggled his signature to the constitution...
...most completely submerged human beings in the United States, those people who write to the 'agony column'of the Saturday Review of Literature. Bringing a note of cheer into the drab lives of these people who have been denied a soul-mate by an unkind fate, the Harvardians pen notes of hope and encouragement every week...
Bald, cantankerous Rudolph E. Leppert is not only art editor of The Literary Digest but a draughtsman in his own right. Weeks ago he sent a pen & ink drawing of President Roosevelt to the exhibition of Manhattan's Salmagundi Club, an organization of elderly esthetes. Last week the Salmagundi hanging committee accepted the Leppert drawing, stuck it up behind a door. Rudolph E. Leppert also happens to be a rampant admirer of the New Deal. As he saw it, the Salmagundi Club was guilty of a "slur at the President...
...diplomacy last week, and a Gallic jest. After enjoying a repast in one of Paris' best restaurants and paying like the very devil for it, with 10% "for service" on top, M. Laval was approached by the fawning Patron who murmured, "Perhaps M. le Président would pen a precious thought in our Golden Book...
Taking the pen without a flicker, sardonic Premier Laval wrote as his precious thought of the moment, "10%." Then, scribbling his autograph beneath, he strolled out as pleased with himself as only a French statesman can be when he knows that France is not only acclaiming his heavy statecraft but will soon be chuckling at his light...