Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three drawings in the magazine The New Yorker, showing a baby in a pen, a clerk in a cashier's cage, and a prisoner behind the bars were responsible for the introduction of cartoons into a psychology course of Dr. F. L. Wells, instructor of Experimental Psychopathology, it was learned yesterday in an interview at the Psychopathic Hospital...
Long-necked Japanese cranes make a peculiar gurgling squawk. Near the crane pen in the Washington Zoo stands a pretentious apartment house whose residents have long been annoyed by the gurgling squawks of the Zoo's cranes-Japanese, Siberian, domestic. When Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan of Colorado moved into this apartment house, other tenants hoped he would be disturbed by the cranes, be awakened by one particularly noisy Japanese crane (named Anson) who squawked before dawn each morning. They felt sure that if Senator Costigan complained, something would be done to silence the cranes...
Last week, though they had not yet heard from Senator Costigan, the Zoo officials announced they were considering three courses: They could move loud Crane Anson to a special pen further away from the apartment house; perform tonsilectomy on all the cranes; put all the cranes in the giraffe pen, move the giraffes, which, unable to make any sound with their mouths, sometimes have an unpleasant smell, nearer to Senator Costigan...
...comes bitter iconoclasm in the form of "Maguire, Builder of Men," a satirical study by John R. Tunis in the December Harper's. Mr. Tunis has long been a heretic among the orthodoxy of sports writers, but it is doubtful if his pen has ever been sharper. In his current piece, it is not what he says but what he implies that bites. His subject is Maguire, an imaginary person, typical of the successful and famous football coach. Everything that he says about "Doc" Maguire is most flattering...
...York, N. Y. Nov. 16--Led by Captain Pen Hallowell, the Harvard cross country team today flashed through to a brilliant and overwhelming victory in the annual I. C. 4A meet on the Van Cortlandt Park course, making a total of 44 points...