Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enormous Gladstone collars generally have the patina of an ancient manuscript. He hates beds and regular meals, cooks what he wants when he is hungry and sleeps on the attic floor rolled up in a blanket. To counteract his habit of forgetting things his watch, his pocketbook, fountain pen, keys, etc. are attached to his clothes by an intricate system of safety pins and odd bits of string. He knows Goethe's Faust by heart, writes and speaks Latin fluently, discourses familiarly on the philosophy of Nietzsche, Spengler, hates beer...
...their Christmas Card: a photographic portrait of themselves sitting on a couch beside a White House fireplace. Another portrait of the President was also being distributed last week by the U. S. Government. It was a photograph of the President in profile sitting at his desk, looking into space, pen in hand to sign a paper. Its inscription: "To the pupils and teachers of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt." Copies may be obtained from the Government Printing Office for 10? each, 100 for $7.50. U. S. Commissioner of Education John Ward Studebaker's first print order called...
...From the pen of snowy-haired Ramsay MacDonald, champion shaker-of-hands-across-the-sea, and Prime Minister of Great Britain, has issued a statement in which diplomacy blends with astute perception. The shrewd Scot, who by a graceful and masterly manipulation of Anglo-Saxon heartstrings, by an incomparably dexterous muddling of issues, reached the pinnacle position of British statecraft, displays in his written comment the same piercing analysis and tempered sagacity which gained him his high post...
...carry out this state butchery, Russia's Puppet President Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was obliged by the Dictator to cancel with a stroke of the pen most of the "progress" ostentatiously made when the Gay-pay-oo was transformed into the Commissariat of Interior under its Gay-pay-oo chief, Comrade Genrikh Grigorevich Yagoda (TIME, July 23). Last week Stalin was said to be so vexed with Yagoda that he had suspended him as Commissar of Interior. The decree of President Kalinin deprived persons arrested not only of any right to be defended by a lawyer but also of the right...
...Theatre Guild has brought Jane Cowl and John Halliday to the Plymouth this week in "Rain From Heaven," as the second play of its Boston Subscription Season. The play was written by S. N. Behrman, from whose pen came last season's success, "Biography." Those who expected a similar play, however, would have been disappointed, for this new work is something of a comedy at times and at others is poignant drama. But it is highly entertaining and it is good drama...