Word: pens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine pair of English racing homers, imported from the estate of an English fancier and bought by Charles Heinzman of Louisville. ¶ Best bird in the show was a Blue African Owl, weighing 1/2 lb., which received a fountain pen, a plaque and $11.50 in cash for being judged the best bird of his breed, the best old Owl and the best old African Owl. Had the Parlor Rollers in last week's show been capable of reversing their situation instead of themselves, they would doubtless have picked, as the best pigeon judge in the U. S., a precise...
...pictures, "Woman Carrying a Child," and "Children Playing Rummel-Pot," were both in pen and ink on white paper. The first was 4 3-4 by 2 7-8 and in a small, simply carved, antique, gold frame, while the second was 6 7-8 by 4 5-8 and was also inclosed in an antique, gold frame, with carved design...
...second theft within a year at the Fogg Art Museum took place last Monday, when two valuable pen and ink sketches by Rembrandt were stolen. Police and art dealers have been notified of the robbery by two directors of the Museum, Professor Edward W. Forbes '95, and Professor Paul J. Sachs '00, who owned the drawings...
...plan by signing as endorsers their promise to pay. The local Russian-Jewish newspaper, Novy Mir ("New World"), took on Comrade Trotsky as an assistant editor at $15 per week, and although his spoken English was extremely halting his sharp eye quickly took the measure of Manhattan, his sharper pen promptly produced this editorial in the most brilliant Bronstein vein...
...spite of the dull showing of these radio ''names,'' purchasers of Commentator felt that they were getting a sharply flavored magazine which aspired to fill the place of the American Mercury in its palmy days. Lead-off article, from no loudspeaker but from the pen of Historian James Truslow Adams, was a thoughtful audit of the "state of the Union." George E. Sokolsky, writing on John L. Lewis, made the flat assertion that the United Mine Workers of America could "come into a town and take possession of it," and "close down any steel or automobile...