Word: pens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...furiously for local autonomy, demanding for Croatia a sort of "dominion status" under the crown at Belgrade. Since King Alexander is no Croat but a Serbian he was exceeding vexed. After two days and nights of consultation His Majesty's patience with the politicians grew thin. Finally with vigorous pen strokes the king signed three decrees...
Bennett would write an occasional editorial, set in double-leads on the Herald's front page. His pen was not as facile or as provoking as his father's, but his imagination was wilder. Somebody told him that the Herald was getting to be a Roman Catholic sheet; immediately a roaring editorial headed "To Hell with the Pope" was written. A wise secretary kept it off the press after Bennett had gone...
Wiping three tears out of one eye, Harry Evans sat down at his desk, in the time-honored office of Life, and wrote, last week, under the caption The Movies, the following wan preamble: "With head uncovered I bow reverently and take my pen in hand to write this column, formerly edited by the dean of all moving picture critics, Robert E. Sherwood...
...competitors were characters widely diverse in aspect: Captain Smoke, a hermit; Jean Cabell O'Neill, "a very famous pen-woman"; May Shaw, who set out to read aloud the whole Bible; an Indian Chief named Hawk, who made dirty drawings; a charming Mexican girl who sang the sad dance songs of her country, accompanying herself on the piano in the middle of the arena...
...called this strong and enigmatic statesman "The Soft Speaker for the Vatican." All know that he has long been the only one of Benito Mussolini's ministers from whom harassed King Vittorio Emanuele III has always been able to secure a countersignature for his royal acts. Constitutionally the pen scratch of His Majesty is of no effect, unless countersigned by a member of the Government. Therefore when Signor Federzoni's ministry was snatched away, last week, the King was popped even deeper down into the depths of Benito Mussolini's ogreish pocket...