Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholarly enthusiasm was seldom reinforced by research. An anachronism unmentioned by alert Reader Weinberg: an inkwell with a hinged top. However. Artist David was careful to paint a krater (drinking-bowl) of the right shape, a lamp of the right proportion, a chain with figure-eight links, and a pen & scroll of correct design. He followed convention in putting curly hair on Socrates and all his companions...
...Scotch wife bigger than he is, landed from the Mauretania last week and proceeded to Washington to present his credentials as the Spanish Republic's first Ambassador to the U. S. His coming increases the literary luminosity of the Washington diplomatic corps about 50%. Though his pen may not have the surpassing grace of French Poet-Ambassador Paul Claudel, Ambassador Madariaga is a writer of first rank, a keen political commentator...
...petites filles, the Guinan gang! They were nice to M. Epstein. He was nice to them. He let "these young goats" out of their pen to frisk in Havre. They browsed at good road restaurants, brought home tasty food to Tex. Within 48 hours les petites filles had M. Epstein so well in hand that he let Miss Guinan lunch (once) at Havre's Frascati's. Vive la petite fille?then bang! From Paris the Director General of the Surete Generale, M. Maurier, telegraphed that nobody was to be let out of the pen. M. Epstein, Miss Guinan & kids were...
...giving a living, accurate, and effective picture of his subject Mr. Duguid's style is worthy of more than a passing note it is not beyond reason to say that he is a writer of promising potentialities, it he chooses to use them, we may expect more from his pen of the same quality as this book...
With his own right hand, his own pen. Pope Pius XI traced the 20,000 words of Quadragesima Anno, his encyclical on Capital & Labor, issued last week in Vatican City. Fortnight ago a vague 2,000-word official summary was released (TIME, May 25). The actual words of His Holiness last week were fresh and vibrant, precise and bold. Most remarkable were those passages in which the Supreme Pontiff pronounced squarely upon three basic elements in the life of almost every human being: the corporation, the factory, the machine...