Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bell struck, his hour of freedom was over, and he returned to his tower cell to continue his vast "History of the World" on which he never got further than the Roman conquest of Greece. But the History was not all that came from Raleigh's pen, and so today the Vagabond will go to Sever 11 at 11 o'clock to hear Professor Munn talk on Raleigh's prose works...
...that belongs to a friend. Few of his Oxford neighbors know that Faulkner writes. He is considered none too well off, easygoing, fond of corn liquor. But, says he: "Ah write when the spirit moves me, and the spirit moves me every day." He writes always in longhand, with pen & ink, in incredibly small script of which one sheet makes five or six printed pages. He plays jazz records while he writes; wrote Soldier's Pay to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." As I Lay Dying he wrote in a power house, to the dynamo's whirr...
Even in his lifetime Sir Walter Scott was a hero. He earned $1,000,000 by his pen, probably more than any man before him. He dug up and popularized ancient ballads and legends, versifying whole sections of them in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and the Lay of the Last Minstrel while galloping about in cavalry maneuvers. With The Lady of the Lake Scott became a national figure; the Scottish duty on post-horses was raised when tourists began flocking to see its authentic background. Scott had a shrewd publisher in famed Constable, but they quarreled and Scott...
...point in his reminiscential writing, often summoning his fashionable friends to question them about so-&-so's gestures, the material of so-&-so's gown. He wrote mostly at night, with the win- dow shut on account of his asthma, "in an attitude as inconvenient as possible: a bad pen, a half-empty bottle of ink. . . . He held his sheet of paper in the air and wrote without supporting it on anything at all. . . . He refused to have a shade fixed on the lamp that dazzled him." He became so completely absorbed in his writing that he once worked three...
...that of Leroy Tudor Vernon (Chicago Daily News) or George Gould Lincoln (Washington Evening Star). Thoroughly experienced in national politics, he sometimes gives routine stories a special twist to lift them out of the obvious. Unlike his Sim colleague Frank Richardson Kent, he has no sharp sting in his pen. He specializes on complex railroad merger stories, leaves foreign affairs mostly to his smart assistant. Drew Pearson...