Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...penny-watching, ambitious mother, his future looked fairly rosy. He should have married Woman No. 2, Dixey, with whom he fell in love at college; but she had no money, even less background than Bob, so his mother soon put a stop to that. Woman No. 3, Pen, hollow-chested but popular debutante, had hearty parental approval. Pen was not rich but she had an aged aunt who was. Meantime Bob became pleasantly entangled with Woman No. 4, Sadie, a stenographer in his office; she gave him many an opportunity to carry out his dishonorable intentions. Pen, jilted...
...more especially, those little volumes of impressionistic essays on foreign lands, are often more revealing of the author's personality than of the strange lands and queer people he meets on the way. Here, we are amused and interested in Mr. Guedalla's skill as a virtuoso of the pen. As always, he is witty and charming; and with penetrating analysis he gives a lucid picture of the South American scene. But the fact that he is writing about South America is only incidental. It is the charming Mr. Guedana we are interested in, and insofar as the Argentine landscape...
...scaled down. This the mortgage holders-banks, insurance companies-would not mind in view of their improved security. Farmers would pay the Land Banks 4½% on their new mortgages and be free from foreclosure for at least two years. ¶ By another of his quick, bold pen-squiggles, President Roosevelt last week created a brand-new military pension system for the U. S. and saved the Treasury more than $400,000,000. By authority of the Economy Act, he issued a set of twelve long regulations, prepared by Budget Director Douglas over the loud objections of the veterans...
...resemble last summer's B. E. F. Typical shots: The President forbidding his Secretary of War to mobilize against the army of unemployed; advising his Cabinet to read the Constitution; insisting on having microphones on the table at a diplomatic conference; signing the Washington Covenant with a feather pen that drops out of his hand as he finishes the last letter...
...Well, it's off," remarked the President, half to himself as he handed a pen to New York's Representative Cullen. sponsor of the new law, and put the other three aside for Mississippi's Senator Harrison, the American Legion and the American Federation of Labor. "I notice the Vice President blotted his signature. He must have been excited...