Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family used to summer before they moved to Cross River, N.Y., oldtimers remember them as The Couple Who Kept the Baby With the Rattlesnake. This is not the exact story. Husband Brook and Wife Bacon were in the habit of parking their healthy young son Sandy in a small pen at the edge of the woods while they pursued art. One hot morning a fat rattler came down the mountain "walking to water," slithered into the pen. No more frightened than the infant Hercules, Baby Sandy went on playing until Alex Brook passed by, saw the snake, snatched...
...executive pen in the Presidential hand decreed: 1) That the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps should be extended one year beginning April 1; 2) that all discriminating duties and imposts on Soviet vessels and their cargoes should be forthwith ended; 3) that veterans pension regulations should be eased...
With the calm of a great surgeon, which he is, President Dr. Ramon Grau con tinued last week to sign breath-taking decrees in the small hours of the night. Scratch-the Presidential pen dismissed famed Manhattan Lawyer Thomas L. Chadbourne, author of the Chadbourne Plan of world sugar crop restriction from his post as President of the Cuban Na tional Sugar Exporting Corp. (see p. 48). Official reason: "Mr. Chadbourne is a foreigner." Scratch-Surgeon Grau signed an agra rian decree bestowing on every "indigent farmer" in Cuba 33 acres of land, a yoke of oxen...
...late, great Dictator's real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. Old Bolsheviks speak of him as "Ilyich." He took the pen name "N. Lenin." Though the N. stood only for "N." millions have assumed that it stood for "Nikolai...
...Fitzgerald. Mr. Fitzgerald is one of the many young men who were, in his time, driven to self expression as an alternative to going abroad in a tramp steamer; he is one of the few of them who has learned the mechanics of writing. Everything that comes from his pen has the same brittle competence. One sees the commas, the exclamations, the paragraphs, falling inexorably into place, and the people, the situations, the emotions, falling with them. His attitude, however, to these people at a Second Empire hotel is broader and deeper than his manner would indicate. "Tender...