Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whoa, TIME! stay your hand a bit! Dip your pen in the sand a bit. That rhyme about Cervantes...
...American Insurance Digest says that messages of inspiration from Mr. Buckners gifted pen have sold millions of life insurance. New York Life agents receive such messages regularly. Extracts from...
...Pen Barnes was spoiled but a darling, and would get all the Barnes money some day, when her grandfather died. Meantime she had set her heart on marrying handsome but penniless Tony de la Ferronays, French professor at her nearby college. When Julie Borel, supposed daughter of a former governess, came to live with the Barnses, she and Tony took fire at sight. But neither had any money, so Tony married Pen. Julie might have had Nick Barnes, a rising surgeon and solid citizen, but honeymooning Tony still kept her fancy. Finally she took a chance on Nick, but stipulated...
...Japanese Diet last week Deputy Tokuho Mitsui (not a member of the "House of Mitsui," richest in Japan) was stabbed in the arm with a fountain pen. A dagger flashed. In the wild melee several heads and hands were slashed. Other heads grew lumps after the police poured in. When the fight first began, Acting Prime Minister Baron Shidehara was in a nearby room. Without an instant's hesitation he walked out of the Diet Building surrounded by his six new plainclothesmen (all jiu-jitsu experts), climbed into his limousine and drove home...
...opera. As critic for the New York World he once wrote a review of one of his early symphonic works. He found it full of holes but said that the composer seemed to have talent and that he hoped to hear something more from his pen played by the Manhattan orchestras...