Word: penning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While Albert Einstein was last week running his little sailboat aground in the Connecticut River, there appeared from his mighty pen a communication to The Physical Review which marked a milestone toward the goal to which the exiled German has promised to devote the rest of his life...
...which showed conclusively that given a certain amount of stimulation one can eat even more gastrically fatal things than a nice fresh worm. Before a roomful of awed waitresses and a horrified steward, who took the act to be a personal insult, the talented Sophomore casually emptied his fountain pen into his soup and tossed the mixture off, smacking his lips, while waitresses gulped and sprinted for the kitchen. Interviewed by the CRIMSON reporter, he said, "It was solely in the interests of science. I like the food here." Questioned more fully, he added, "I have nothing further...
...years of Leonardo's career. The drawings begin vigorously and experimentally, turn precise and dry, explore and finish the possibilities of silverpoint, then drop silverpoint entirely, solve the problems of shading in concave spaces to define forms, turn to red chalk in a bold, open style, then to pen & ink and black chalk, once again with exquisite neatness but with a new heavy deliberation and economy. Finally, as the paralysis began to clamp on the heavy-bearded, 60-year-old man, Leonardo was finishing his appalling Deluge series of calamity and death, done in pen & ink, emphasized with black...
...pen scratched to a halt. The man lifted his pen again, boldly signed his name: Bowen Tufts. He slipped the note into his pocket...
THIS sprightly offering from the pen of Paul Morand attempts to capture the flavor of today's Paris, and set it down for the edification of cosmopolitan and Philistine. Most of the comments concern street scenes, the markets, coster-mongers, cafes, street fairs, flea markets, gardens, and children. Fortunately, the book does not attempt to generalize about the beauty or the grandiloquence or the triviality of Paris, but presents only a collection of random pen-pictures of the city, which are pleasing in their familiarity, without being too cute. The book is no Baedeker, but it will give...