Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...east. The news men watched coolies singsong a dismantled truck up the cliff, for use on the highway leading to the static front. They inspected cave dwellings of two or more well-swept rooms with an earthen shelf for the family bed, an earthen fireplace and an earth-rirnmed pen for the goat. They saw signs of ample food, good discipline, an official distaste for Communists. Every citizen of Kenanpo, including General Yen, must cultivate a little garden. No one wears skirts in Kenanpo; men, women & children dress in identical floppy blue trousers and jackets. The climate is like Arizona...
...loved rich living, and that took the kind of money he made. He had a villa in Florence, with squads of servants, instructors and tutors for his son and two daughters. In his Florentine study were two desks: one with a typewriter; the other with a quill pen for the abstruse, elegant poetry he liked to write but seldom sold (only two volumes were published: The Village Street, Dionysus in Hades...
George Biddle's 45 war pictures were pen drawings of U.S. soldiers in Africa and Italy. His 34 prewar oils were landscapes of California, Texas, Brazil, some still lifes, several portraits. One large canvas pictured a monumental, seated Frieda Lawrence (widow of late great Brit ish Novelist D. H. Lawrence), her chill eyes peering from a heavy face, fringes of her shawl spilling like black blood from...
Biddle war pictures depicted anonymous G.I. faces, habits, miseries, elations, fatigues. There were exhausted Italian ref ugees, U.S. wounded, panoramic views of battlefields, pen & ink portraits of Generals Eisenhower and Clark, Correspondent Ernie Pyle. There were also nine sketches of dead bodies. One of the most effective, War Drawing No. u, showed a death-sprawled German infantryman, his mouth covered with a muffler, his unflung hand grenade lying near his outflung hand...
Angrily they said: "Ai-ah, last year the famine ; now the Jih-pen Kwei" - the Japanese devil...