Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Penned In. In Los Angeles, Shopkeeper Dorothy Savey, whose home had just been burgled, called the cops when Customer Essie Flaugher handed her a fountain pen, asked her to file off the name: Dorothy Savey...
...their official Journal, delegates found a familiar little list of items absentmindedly left behind in their various London meeting places: two keys, two spectacle cases (empty), one Elizabeth Arden lipstick, one entrance pass No. 10156, two pipes, one bracelet, one book titled Miami, one brown gauntlet glove, three pen tops, one copy of Hymns Ancient and Modern...
Rembrandt (1606-69), less interested in objective accuracy and less patient, enclosed the general looks of things with parenthetical stabs of his pen, gave them loose cloaks of broadly brushed shadow. His eight sketches at the Metropolitan (a woman hanging from a gibbet, a burgher sitting on a step, etc.) described not only what he saw but what he felt about...
...this room," he told John, "nothing is shameful. Even if you've believed it is all your life. When you talk about it, John, when you get it out into the open, you'll discover it's not shame." He unscrewed the top of his fountain pen, poised it expectantly over a writing pad. Then John knew that there was no escape, and he began to talk...
...have tried copper, then we will try brass again. ... If we succeed, brass stamps will never be used any more in the Christian world"; "Look into that Bierstadt Artotype business, & see what figure a body can buy into at"; "I wish to God I could get a good pen. I'll be damned if I think any are made." . . . "Dear Charley-Look here, have the Am. Pub. Co. swindled me out of only $2,000? I thought it was five"; "I have this idea: to paint the white marble (which immediately surrounds [my] hall fireplace) the same strong...