Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasantly surprised I was to find a lecture which I heard this morning, duplicated word for word, quotation for quotation, but with some careful attention given to selection, from the preface of an English writer's works. My professor, doubtless a scholarly man and much taken up with his pen, writing and editing books, simply lifted the lecture...
...each, statuets reproduced from the Nolleken bust. To 1,000,000 schoolrooms he distributed a poster made from the Athenaeum portrait. As unofficial censor of the move to honor Washington, he endorses most of the commercial enterprises submitted to the Commission, suggests a fair price for Washingtonian matchboxes, fountain pen sets, Wedgwood china plates, lampshades, silhouets and plaques. The tire cover notion he rejected as unsuitable. Some of the Commission's own projects he has copyrighted himself, to prevent them from being used for advertising. When asked why his name appears so frequently in all the Commission's correspondence, Congressman...
These poems from the pen of a Harvard graduate of 1911, vice president of the Outlook, are full of sincerity, and intensity of feeling. His technique is admirable; the spirit behind the verses is genuine. The title poem "See Prayer", and the opening poem, in addition to the final sonnet sequence are splendidly done. The verses always rise above the ranks of mere competence. Perhaps it is unjust to refer to them in this way. Suffice it to say that here are pleasant poems not destined to immortality...
...once a most shy bank clerk whom his associates called "Bunnie." He was a most efficient bank clerk with heavy spectacles, long, grey trousers, large nose, watery eyes, and a limp. All day long he sat at a high stool in Thread needle Street whisking a great quill pen over the interminable pages of a vast ledger. For years he had done this and he had done it well. And then a change came over Bunnie; he became less conscientious, more preoccupied and took to biting off the feathers on his quill. Love has touched him. Now this is quite...
...first week in becoming acquainted with various University sources, and with "newspaper style." Shortly after, when the "Scoop book" is opened, they will be given greater opportunities for displaying initiative and ability in gleaning items of interest from among the chaff of commonplace material. Ability to wield a pen with some fluency is essential, but previous journalistic experience is not necessary...