Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bleak Suffolk downs, saying nothing to each other, each busy with his own ideas. Britten gets his themes in bed, on a bus or train, anywhere, believes strongly in letting them sort themselves out while he sleeps. "Usually I have the music complete in my head before I put pen to paper...
...revolutionary Russia, truth is what the Communist Party's Agitation and Propaganda section says it should be. In remote, snowclad Veshenskaya, Sholokhov was summoned to lend his powerful pen and his novelist's imagery to the clamor that is party truth in 1948. Sholokhov obliged. Last week, the Soviet radio carried his new message...
Lombardo persisted. "The Marshall Plan is an encouragement of production. . . ." The lion-dominated crowd chanted its dissent : "Your speech is written with Dunn's fountain pen."* Cried one delegate: "Traitor! The Marshall Plan is an American attempt to capture markets and throw European workers into unemployment...
...Harvard Lampoon, or Cambridge Charivari Illustrated, Humorous, Etc." One of the earliest issues--a collector's item if that's your idea of a good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meershaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," and pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid, is reclining in a lace-fringed chair, smoking a catarrh cigarette and casually flicking ashes into a brass spittoon. The other is standing firmly before the fireplace, warming the seat of his blue...
...mysterious society, the invitations to which embraced acts which if detected by the College officers might mean expansion from the University. No one could discover the identify of the six "Med. Fac." members until Harvard Class Day, when they appeared faunting on a lapel a sort of black pen-wiper with white skull-and-crossbones. Some of the antics of the "Med, Facs." become notorious, such as placing a fireman's hat on the head of the solider stop the granite monument on Cambridge Common, which the powers-that-be could not dislodge until the fire department was restore...