Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shakespeare (''Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend"&151; King Lear), Author John Collier has written a robust and racy novel of which Henry Fielding would have been proud. Readers of Defy the Foul Fiend may look forward to continuous entertainment of a high order, will close the book with the feeling that they have added a first-rate volume to their library of 20th Century English letters. No literary left-winger but a traditionalist, Author Collier adds his bit to the quietly...
...some of the temples of Siam. "Really, you know." said King Prajadhipok. "I am very interested." In the visitors' book His Majesty dashed off a modest squiggle. less than a third the size of the eight-inch-wide VON HINDENBURG written by the President with a special monster pen which he carries for public autographing...
...lawyer named Noah Webster (no kin to the later Daniel) published a spelling book. In 1807 he set his great jaw, sat down to write an up-to-date dictionary of the English language. The spelling book, a best seller, supported him for the 21 years it took to pen definitions of 70,000 words. The first Webster was published in 1828 and its author lived long enough to revise it in 1840. When he died in 1843 G. & C. Merriam of Springfield, Mass, bought the unsold copies and all rights, of his dictionary, settled down to being...
...automobile storage men: After six months of frustration, confusion, contradiction and total inaction on the part of the Recovery Administration the Administration's order attempts to wipe out with one stroke of the pen all that is of possible value in the code to the trade, retaining only its burden, the labor provisions. Such action, if legal, must abrogate the entire code and will, in fact if not in theory, abolish the other half as to hours and wages. There is strong and uncontrollable opinion among the complying members of the code that . . . the Administration's announcement practically...
...great Fascist-built motor via duct more than two miles long connecting Venice with the mainland. As he stepped ashore a small Balilla (Fascist Scout) squirmed between policemen's legs and ran up to // Duce panting "Please sign my Fascist card!" Out came the Dictator's fountain pen and at this pause the Venetian crowd burst into huzzahs and swept police aside in a scramble toward the Leader. Four tall gondoliers pounced on small Benito Mussolini, raised him shoul der high and carried him to his motor car. Cynics observed: "Those gondoliers were detectives!" Zipping out of Venice...