Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the judges announced the winners: a squirming pen-and-ink satire on Picassomania, by Adolf Dehn; a crowd of bereaved workers' wives, by Georges Schreiber; a suicide, by Anton Refregier; a murder, by Fred Ellis; a death in the Dustbowl, by Bernard Steffen. Popular choice: a train wreck by Lionel S. Reiss...
...natural to think compartmentally, religion in one compartment, science in another, politics in a third. Sir John Bowring, as a devout churchman, could write the familiar hymn, 'In the Cross of Christ I glory,' and, as the representative of empire, sign, perhaps with the same pen, the treaties forcing the nefarious opium trade upon China. . . . The old smug compartmentalism is gone, never to return...
Littlest worries: losing your fountain pen, growing up, having bad dreams, not finding a job after leaving school, getting bad marks in conduct, not sleeping at night, robbers, choking, getting married, kidnappers, world coming to an end, witches...
...treatment of it. For this "Big Broadcast" Father Rowan got roundly swatted. Even the editorial page of the New World, written by Father Edward V. Dailey, disagreed. Presently Father Rowan abandoned an old dream: to make the New World the first big-city Catholic daily. Said he (under a pen name): ". . . Whereas the inarticulate majority of our readers possibly has no objections to ... a fair presentation of the news, the articulate and even vociferous minority will have none...
...publish indiscriminately all the lies and reports cooked up by hostile propaganda. . . . We are not rushing the German newspaper reader from one nerve-racking sensation to another, we are not subjecting him to every stupid political gossip coming from the mouth of some hysterical person or from the pen of our enemies...