Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ashamed of me! Never would I ever have b'lieved such as this would come from my pen (it really isn't mine; I borrowed the roomie's 'cause she's gone off with mine--mine's the better--So much for pens...
...minions (who hate, fear and dodge photographers) : domineering, onetime newspaperman Seihin Ikeda; softspoken, old-fogyish Nagabumi Ariga; diplomatic, democratic Kikusaburo Fukui. It was on this Council's advice that the Senior Baron last week signed away 30,000,000 yen,† created by a squiggle of his august pen a Mitsui Foundation "to relieve distress among farmers and fishermen." Though Tokyo editors hailed this "largest private benefaction in the history of Japan," they made bold to comment that the House of Mitsui has been "a shining target for resentment against excessive capitalist profits." In Army circles satisfaction was tinged...
...pelts. which now average $5 to $20 apiece, to make a coat. With so rich a market in prospect, farmers have been trying to breed and raise mink for more than a decade. It has taken them that long to learn how. Not until this year have pen-raised pelts approached trapped pelts in quality...
Coach Jaako Mikkola is looking forward to a successful afternoon, as the 1933 cross country team is the best balanced squad he has coached since the days of "Pen" Hallowell...
...still extant a Professor who walked into the New Lecture Hall to see how his assistant was supervising an examination in his popular survey course. To his immense irritation he found a young man standing in the middle of the centre aisle bluebook in one hand, examination paper and pen in the other, gazing unconcernedly about at the papers of other young men, making no move to answer the questions for himself in his own bluebook. "Sit down!" the professor thundered. The young man sat down. The professor turned his back, the young man arose, the professor caught sight...