Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talent, she took up writing "in an effort to do something." Together Again, See How They Run, Mothers Cry (the last snapped up for the talkies by First National) were immediate successes. The scholarly weight of historical research in We Begin acts as a sedative to her emotionally excitable pen...
...Printers' Ink, Eagle Pencil Co. revealed a letter which it had hopefully solicited from President Grover Cleveland at the time of his inauguration in 1893. Wrote shrewd President Cleveland: "Pursuant to my promise I send you by mail with this, the Eagle Penholder and pen with which I have written my in augural address. Of course I do not suspect you of desiring it for purposes of advertising...
...most attractive feature of the proposed Harvard Inquiry is, of course, its promised policy of concentration. Other student groups are content to solve, with a flourish of a heedless and platitudinous pen, all the major problems in every field; and their results are capably mirrored in the adolescent omissions of the Republican Club platform drawn up last evening. The principle of thorough study of the year's most important problem is a long step in the right direction and should certainly be welcome in a society of men supposedly bent on securing a sound education and understanding of the world...
...aunt. An overdraft at the bank sends him to her for help. She, concerned that he is not advancing in a "career," gives him hark-from-the-tomb. To pacify her, Oswald, to his own horror, suggests that he become a literary man. Desperately he begins to twiddle with pen & ink, and on the strength of this activity his aunt palms him off as a literary genius on Julia. But Julia soon discovers that Oswald's only genius is to loaf, even in the marriage bed. She takes some lovers on the sly. Oswald discovers her infidelity, goes...
...Private Universe" is the most recently personal book which Mr. Maurois has published. Large fragments from his diary are reprinted; his temperment and personality are exposed on every page. Here is the human, optimistic, romantic spirit; here is the humorous, the mildly ironic pen...