Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usually without a medium of putting them before his colleagues. Here is a chance for the younger men in the college to express. There feelings upon the state of the nation, here is to be an in watching the views as they are thrashed out with the pen. If for nothing else, this new stand of the Critic will have merit for its position as a chronicle for the varying thoughts of the youth of today...
...your issue of Aug. 27 you pay a well deserved tribute to Raymond M. Hood. I knew him very well. He was a lovable companion and a splendid man to work with, and were he here today he would be the first to take up his pen to correct a grave injustice which you have done to his associate, John Mead Howells...
...clock every good diplomat should be at the tea table. At 5 o'clock one afternoon last week five diplomats were sitting down in the State Department to pen and ink. There were Dr. Cosme de la Torriente. Cuban Secretary of State, Dr. Manuel Marquez Sterling, Cuban Ambassador to Washington, and Secretary Hull. There also were Assistant Secretary Sumner Welles and Jefferson Caffery, the past and present Ambassadors to Cuba. Their purpose was to set their hands and seals upon the first reciprocal trade agreement negotiated under the new tariff bargaining law (TIME, June 18). A few minutes later...
When William Shakespeare was ready to write the story of Cleopatra, he needed nothing more than pen, ink, paper and his own lively genius. Three centuries later George Bernard Shaw required no more equipment for the same task. But when Paramount put Cecil Blount DeMille to work on this well-worn old tale, that old-time director could not even get started without $750,000, a majority of the unemployed actors in Hollywood, ten crates of real grapes by airmail from South America, an $800 history book and a month of conferences aboard his yacht. Last week, after four more...
Seventy-five thousand unorganized cattle bellowed an anguished protest. A few coatless clerks of the stock yards and commission houses, a few foremen and superintendents in shirt sleeves-in all, perhaps, 200 men-went down into the pens to water 75,000 thirsty cattle. The Government dared not hire men to care for its 50,000 head for fear of being accused of strikebreaking. So all day the foremen and white collar workers labored alone. The thirsty beasts balked at being driven from pen to pen, at being sorted out by inexperienced hands. All day long the air above...