Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Hoover, presented with a fountain pen and writing case by the Women's National Press Club, said she might use them to write an autobiography. ''There have been so many stories written about me," said she, "that I've been thinking of writing one myself in parallel columns, with the fiction ... in one column and the facts in the other. Stories like the one about my having manned a gun in China during the Boxer uprising. ... I assure you I never manned a gun in China or anywhere else, or used one except on hunting...
With Premier Braun & Cabinet thus politically annihilated by a stroke of Der Feldmarshal's pen, Lieut.-Colonel von Papen proclaimed dissolution of the Prussian Diet and elections March 5, the same day as the Reichstag elections...
...Renouncing his salary of 48,000 marks ($11,400) as Chancellor, Herr Hitler cried, "I shall continue to live by my pen." (Standard Cabinet practice decrees that statesmen shall peddle no writings while in office lest they be suspected of accepting in payment gifts or bribes...
When school committeemen in Somerville, Mass, read the story last week and saw the picture that illustrated it, they angrily suppressed that issue of the Junior Red Cross News, and all Junior Red Cross activities in Somerville.* The pen-&-ink drawing of Rafael, Juanita and the priest was captioned: "Rafael and Juanita stood before the priest, who murmured a blessing and placed a barley wafer in Juanita's mouth." The Somerville schoolmen called this "sacrilegious . . . offensive . . . un-American . . . ridiculing the great central act of worship of a great religious denomination." Other Massachusetts cities-Cambridge, Lowell, Lawrence, Everett, Fall River...
Most of the verse is from the pen of John Cabbage, but not all. District Superintendent Emil Disch contributes "Sing a Song of Can Can." Excerpt...