Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beerbohm's description of the militant suffragettes as the "army of the unenjoyed," he finds behind the W. C. T. U. and similar organizations the unconscious desire to ruin man's pleasure be it good or bad. The godliness of trouble-making women he finds already attacked from the pen of Mark Twain: "These women make me darned tired who try to take in God as a silent partner without his consent." There is nothing new here, save where the new psychology feeds the flame of masculine resentment...
PLEASE GIVE YOUR NORTH CAROLINA READERS A PEN PICTURE AND ESTIMATE OF SENATOR F M SIMMONS AND HIS RECORD AS A DEMOCRAT AND LEGISLATOR FOR GODS SAKE "DO" HIM IN AN EARLY ISSUE...
...Victory, Pen, Gardenia. Chief U. S. Delegate Henry Lewis Stimson, who fought and won a last-minute victory to keep the League of Nations from being mentioned in the Treaty (all the other delegations wished to mention it), said to correspondents after he had deposited his certified copy* in the S. S. Leviathan's safe: "I am not interested in warships any more. My chief trouble now is that I have left one of my suitcases in London...
April 21-25?National convention of the League of American Pen Women; at Washington...
Your recent references to A. R. Orage have greatly interested admirers of his trenchant critical pen in his old New Age days. One of the high spots of his editorship of that weekly was the sponsoring and of the the forcing Douglas "Social Credit Movement" and the forcing into spectacular journalistic combat of the famous economic " A plus B" Theorem. This latter declares that the total purchasing power of the community only secured by way of wages, salaries and dividends, is, under the present cost-accounting system, insufficient to buy back the total products of industry...