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...patient glared and clapped his hat on his head. Then defiance oozed out of him. He picked up a pen and signed himself...
...knowing the proportion of purchasing power that is contained in bank accounts less than 3000 rubles, it is certain that a very considerable amount of savings will be wiped out. Even state bonds will be "devaluated". Purchasing power will simply vanish before the stroke of a pen. But this is no guarantee that inflation will be completely banished from the scene. The causes which combined to produce inflation are complex and deep-seated. Human nature being what it is, there is a presumption that speculation will continue. Russian industry is still not producing in the desired quantities. Russian farmers...
Alluring Strangeness. Nicolson admits that all great writers have been the least bit peculiar, at that. Germany's Schiller whetted his inspiration by keeping rotten apples in his writing table drawer. Charlotte Brontë often mooned about the house for months without being able to put pen to paper. Milton could write only between October and March; Balzac, Byron, Dostoevsky and Conrad, only at night...
...soggy, foggy ballad called How Soon? He had written the lyrics five years ago, to a simple tune by Sammy Kaye's arranger, Carroll Lucas. No one paid any attention to it, even when Owens was plugging it on ladies' laps. Then, a year ago, the Reynolds Pen Co. hired Owens to record the Rocket Song, hoping that listeners would be reminded of Rocket Pens. Owens got a chance to slip How Soon? on the other side of the record. Disc jockeys started playing it, and requests poured in. He expects to earn $100,000 from the song...
Harried study card jugglers, armed with nothing but a pen and a sketchy list of courses, will find some relief this month, at least in one department of the University...