Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adrian Conan Doyle, younger son of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, himself set pen to paper in an attempt to settle the aging argument about the identity of Sherlock's prototype. To the London Daily Telegraph he wrote: "The fact is my father, himself, was Sherlock Holmes. It was true that Sir Arthur was absentminded and often put on one brown shoe and one black shoe, but like Sherlock Holmes the accuracy of my father's deductions was startling...
...Poison on the Pen. Author Aldington inherited that spirit: his bitter anti-war autobiographical novels (Death of a Hero, Roads to Glory) were contributions to it. And though he condemns it in The Duke its lingering traces poison his biography with a wit which seems studied and dutiful, a shamefacedness before an unequivocal salute to a great man, and a hesitancy in striking out the dull gossip and malice. Only in his last chapters does Richard Aldington drop the irrelevancies of sophisticated comment and let himself go in praise of the "distant but steady beacon of common sense" whose simple...
Through the bomb-bursts and ack-ack that once made Malta about the hottest spot this side of hell appeared an old familiar face last week. Its somewhat-forgotten owner was Major General John Hay Beith, better known to U.S. readers by his pen name: Ian Hay. Author Hay's The First Hundred Thousand was the biggest best-seller among World War I war books until Private Peat and Arthur Guy Empey's Over the Top went over...
...London, he was known as "Mr. Smith." In Eden's room on May 26, Molotov signed (with Churchill's pen) a 20-year pact which is still the basis of Anglo-Soviet Union relations...
John Masefield, now 65, was moved to pen a letter to the London Times. Virtually the only solace he and his wife had got out of any newspapers in years, wrote the poet, was the Times's crossword puzzles...