Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baby. The vicar's sermon, said one villager, "set the place on fire." Many a poison-pen victim, who had suffered in silence, thinking that he or she alone had been singled out for attack, rushed to the vicar with his story. Within a fortnight he had several hundred letters to take to the police. Burly Storekeeper Richard Knightly Storm boasted of having got his first 15 years ago: "You felt out in the cold if you hadn't received one." Relieved villagers gave the anonymous writer a jeering name: "The Big Baby...
...days of Soviet divorce at a pen-scratch had been ended by 1944 decrees. New laws further restricting divorce are under consideration. Said Kolbanovsky: "The time will never come when parents are reduced to the function of producing children and handing their babies over to the state. . . . Love under Communism will become even more beautiful...
...attitudes toward mountains. . . . Chinese poets are inspired by mountains to write poems. . . . Mountains in China also serve as inspiration for suggestive landscape paintings. The artist does not necessarily have to visit the mountain. He can lie on his back and dream. . . . Now we have Mr. Reynolds, holding an atomic pen in his hand. . . . He knows the value of using mountains to publicize his name and his pen, while the Chinese know only about burying themselves after death in mountains which are famous...
Jimmy Petrillo was afraid of being thrown and hog-tied by the Taft-Hartley Act. As a result the radio networks found that Jimmy was just about the nicest fellow who had ever picked up a fountain pen. He gave up his plan of making their key stations hire more musicians. He agreed not to ask for a pay increase. He decided, after three years of stubborn resistance, to let union musicians appear on television programs. When he signed a new three-year contract last week, NBC's Vice President Frank Mullen couldn't resist giving...
Sacred & Profane. Mad Lord Orris welcomes poachers and bill collectors with an exquisite bow and regrets profusely that he has only rabbits to offer them. Even the puritanical mailman, who writes religious poetry, gets spring fever so badly that he puts his pen to a theme which he considers "profane"-his wife...