Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East Orange, N.J., Dr. Myerson's soothing drug treatment got partial support last week. An amnesia victim, a wandering farm hand who had been taken to a hospital, was treated with a dose of sodium pen to thai (a barbiturate similar to sodium amytal) and promptly recovered his memory...
...Slash. Sinclair Lewis has scarcely ever put pen to paper without causing controversy; this time, he has thrown himself so furiously into the battle against anti-Negro discrimination that he is likely to arouse the noisiest whirlwind of his career...
From Princeton's University press, and from the pen of Arthur S. Link of Princeton's history department, Road to the White House is the first volume of a projected four-to eight-volume study. Coming from Princeton, where Woodrow Wilson is still a lively subject of conversation, it is painstaking and generally sympathetic, but now & then sharply criti-cal. It is also more academic and less anecdotal than Ray Stannard Baker's eight-volume Life & Letters. Wilson could be "cold, ruthless and stubborn," says Link, though firm and eloquent in defense of his beliefs. But "there...
...eager fellow beside him was starting a new page, but Vag quickly capped his pen to free his hands for action. He listened intently as the professor capped his pedantic climax with rhetorical summing-up, cleverly designed to wake the sleeping in time to applaud. Three Cheers for the Reading Period, Vag thought, as he led off the clapping, and then pushing past the knees of the notebook-filler beside him, found the aisle at last and then the stairs...
...political prisoners to whom the triumphant Fascists granted amnesty after the fall of Addis Ababba. Christ Stopped at Eboli, a best-seller in Italy, is Levi's account of this year of exile. It is another instance of an able, discerning painter taking up a pen and thereby putting professional writers in the shade...