Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mess hall. And when the convict band at Stateville, practicing unguarded, fought among themselves over the question of inciting similar disturbance, prison officials knew that the newer institution had also been infected with the virus of revolt. They announced: "Things are hot right now. Anything might hap- pen." It happened next...
Topsy tries to make herself out a charming fool, but Author Herbert guides her pen, and the result is satire that reflects not only or chiefly on Topsy but on the things she writes about. Her adventures, like those of all such week-to-week women-of-straw, are as varied as they are improbable. First engaged,'then married to a Mr. Haddock, who has lost his seat in Parliament but still takes himself seriously, Topsy stands in his stead, is elected hands down. As an M.P. she drafts many a portentous Bill aimed at the discomfiture of Puritans...
...pen-&-ink of a theatre front with electric lights announcing ROGER CONANT- First appearance in "LIFE...
Taking after their father, Master Vittorio Mussolini, 14, and Master Bruno Mussolini, 12, have tackled journalism as their first big job. At Rome they publish La Penna del Ragazzi (The Boys' Pen), weekly...
With his boy's pen Master Bruno dashed off a short story, "The Vessel of the Dead." Hair raising, it resembles (except for lack of sex motive) Il Duce's own lurid serial The Cardinal's Mistress,* penned while he was helping to edit a Socialist sheet...