Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cashier of a small national bank, the only bank at Cross Roads. He thought he saw remarkable opportunities to make lots of money by buying options on Wall Street; but the market went down instead and Joe has been sent to the pen...
...What I would like to know is, 'How Joe can be sent to the pen while Bishop Cannon is guilty of the same crimes Joe has committed and gets complete forgiveness from his people?' Joe gambled with other people's money. As nearly as I can find out Bishop Cannon did the same thing. Joe is in the pen, but the Bishop is able to defy even the United States Senate and still retains his high position in the church...
...Adamses wrote voluminously, but not till the fourth generation found writing the only public career left open to them. Henry Adams wanted to influence politics by his pen. He found it an endless, hopeless task. His most famed book, The Education of Henry Adams, was published posthumously (1918). Long out of_political power, the Adamses are still in the public eye. "Today a third Charles Francis, the son of John Quincy's grandson John Quincy, is head of the family. A Harvard graduate, like all of his family since John; for 30 years treasurer of the University; a lawyer...
Winner Reichardt had, in the opinion of the judges, turned in the best design for the problem: "A church and parish house of a style in harmony with the traditions of early America." Explaining his adeptness with pen and brush, he told newshawks that he had been drawing since he was eight years old. "My father, who is a designer of architectural woodwork, used to give me his drawings to copy. He used to give me $1 for each copy I made. It made me feel pretty important. I didn't realize that his real object simply...
...evident to no one more than to the student suffering from a hard three-hour grind in New Lecture Hall. Three hours at the end of a year and proceeded by an abbreviated period of the most intensive cramming is unfair to the undergraduate, perhaps ungifted with a glib pen, who has worked steadily throughout the year and can be said to possess a comprehensive and appreciative knowledge of his subject. The final examination is, too, a boon to the man who makes a desperate last minute effort, attended by a visit to the tutoring schools, to cover the work...