Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occurs just when things are looking brightest for Mammy's big family. There is plenty of corn laid by for the mules and blackamoors, fattening hogs grunt in their pen, 25^ cotton has provided a fine pair of blue mules, clothes for everybody and $40 for Christmas. A high pile of tinder-dry stovewood is stacked near the cabin door...
...Viceregal telegram was publicly called "insulting" by President Vallabhai Patel of the Gandhite Indian National Congress. Other Gandhites shouted: "This means war!" Squatting in his little tent pitched atop a Bombay tenement house, the Mahatma meditated half the night. Then loyal followers heard the scratch, scratch of his pen as he wrote to the Viceroy...
...until afternoon was President Hoover ready to act. Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board was with him at the time. Slowly, carefully, a little larger than usual, the President wrote his name at the bottom of H. J. R. 147, smilingly handed the pen over to Mr. Meyer as a souvenir. To the country at large the President declared...
...Rumanian by birth, has spent most of his life in England, where he has been associated with the London School of Economics. His reputation was gained in large measure by his work on the Manchester Guardian. Several works on international relations and on Rumania, have come from his pen...
...history of the United States during the pre-War of 1812 period. At first the frequent use of obsolete words in conversation leads to a measure of resentment, for one fears that the writer is setting out to display a large and scholarly knowledge of the period under his pen. But none can condemn him for not at once setting his readers at ease. Nothing is more difficult than disentangling a reader from his own era and transporting him back to times gone before. One is compelled to praise the crescendo of appeal developed by Mr. Colby as he travels...