Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this spirit the Secretary of State took pen and signed the only document which was complete, a pledge under which the signatories promise to sign later, after appropriate investigation, such of five peace pacts sponsored by Argentina as they have not signed already (TIME, Dec. 25). It was the sole binding act performed by the U. S. Delegation at the Conference. Left unsigned by the U. S. was the Treaty on Equal Nationality Rights for Women...
...said, further, that one can find little fault with Mr. Starrett's mode of selection. As far as is possible within 200 pages, he has touched upon all the interesting aspects of the Holmes saga. Illustrators, parodists, actors, imitators,--all come under his facile pen. One must conclude that, if Mr. Starrett has been a little too willing to be naive, his naivete has at least the merit of being understood; and that for the rest, his biography is vivacious and readable...
...stories composing this latest volume from the analytical pen of Somerset Maugham are laid largely in the Federated Malay States and the neigbouring lands. But, as one who knows Maugham's work might surmise, the exotic setting of the scenes has little to do with the essential qualities of what is being related; here, as before, the author concerns himself more with the inner than the outer shells of his characters: he churns about in the soul, and finds it much the same on the Malay Archipelago as in East Wapping. Maugham has made the feelings of his characters more...
With a squiggle of his pen Dr. Kung upped China's cigaret taxes by a staggering 50%. Twelve Shanghai cigaret factories instantly closed in protest, locked out 8,000 cigaret makers who shrilly cursed Dr. Kung...
Rubber Money. Last July when from the cruiser Indianapolis President Roosevelt tossed off his amazing monetary message which disrupted the London Economic Conference, his lone companion and adviser aboard was none other than Henry Morgenthau Jr. At the time Mr. Morgenthau's presence so close to the presidential pen was minimized or ignored altogether but by last week its full significance was startlingly plain...