Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bull cavorting in a china shop was nothing to the stir raised last week when a china merchant lumbered into a bull pen. The china merchant was big, bluff Colonel the Right Honorable Josiah Clement Wedgwood, great-great-great-grandson of the Josiah Wedgwood who founded Britain's famed pottery works. The bull pen was Congress...
...Town Hall the German commander unslung his service pistol and laid it on the Burgomaster's desk with a flourish. With an equal flourish Cock Sparrow Max unslung his service fountain pen and laid it beside the pistol. He refused, however, to shake hands...
Even the date mocked General Henri Fernand Dentz, for it was Bastille Day. As he took up the pen his throat must have worked. Last year he signed Paris away to the conquering Nazis. Now, as Vichy's High Commissioner to the Levant States, he was about to sign Syria away to the conquering British and, even worse, to the conquering Free French. General Dentz, who rather resembles a provincial druggist in uniform, sighed and signed his full name...
...week Syrian War had been merely initialed by Vichy's Brigadier General Joseph Antoine Sylvain Râoul de Verdillac, who went to Acre in Palestine for the armistice talks* held in the officers' mess of the Sidney Smith Barracks. When diminutive General de Verdillac uncapped his pen for the initialing, all the lights in the room suddenly fused out. So the war that started in the early morning moonlight of June 8 ended in the light of a dispatch rider's motorbike head lamp which was brought in from outside...
Cronin usually writes his novels in three to five months, though their germination period may be five to ten years. But The Keys of the Kingdom has been in his mind since boyhood, took eight months to rewrite four times. He writes with a fountain pen and a driving will. Writing is a "grey monotony of hell" punctuated by occasional outbursts of frayed nerves, while Cronin's three sons ("all named after saints") wonder "if the world wouldn't be better off without authors." Mrs. Cronin, also a doctor, who has a phenomenal memory for names, places, dates...