Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quickly summoned Attorney General Mitchell and together they composed a retort to the Senate and an explanation to the Public. The militant wording of these documents, it was noticed, was so much above the President's average literary style that Attorney General Mitchell was suspected of having contributed much pen...
...town, pack a hall, and satisfy people who have paid good money to hear him hold forth. A student at a famous Mid-Western university describes the lecture system as "that process by which the contents of the professor's notebook are transferred by means of the fountain pen to the student's notebook without passing through the mind of either," and recently Mr. H.G. Wells declared. "There is no need whatever for any one ever to suffer or inflict an ordinary course of lectures again...
...Wells himself has written an introduction to this book, in which he informs you that "Geoffrey West's" real name is Geoffrey H. Wells, no relation, who adopted his pen-name to avoid confusion. Everything in the book, says Wells, is quite true as far as it goes. "I have kept nothing back from him of any importance and if he has kept anything back from the public that is a matter of his own discretion. I have lived in accordance with my convictions and if I am troubled by remorse for certain things I have done, they...
...triumphal week for college-bred fauna. Purdue won with sheep of all breeds, also with Poland China, Berkshire and Chester White hogs; the agricultural school at LaFayette, Ind. won with lambs; so did Illinois; Iowa State Agricultural School had the best pen of Tamworth barrows; Wisconsin had the best Yorkshire barrows, Tamworth hogs. Other winners...
...WOMAN WITH WHITE EYES-Mary Borden-Doubleday, Doran ($2).* Authoress Mary Borden, U. S.born, has lived many years in Europe. Like her heroine she married an Englishman, but her emotional pen, in spite of all temptations, refuses to be expatriate. You would never accuse the author of this undammed narrative of being a reticent British-woman...