Word: plumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yard is a red brick Georgian dormitory which exhibits the simple grace of Puritan England. It is a very famous part of Harvard Great men have broken the ice in their water pails of a cold January morning in days past. Its name is the nom de plume of a contemporary writer. It has looked down upon the Yard while countless generations of Harvard men have trailed out of Sever, and it has seen many able presidents trip on the third stone step of University Hall as they mount for the day's work. For these reasons it is justly...
Traffic slowed, necks craned upward one sunny afternoon last week as the airship Los Angeles, convoyed by a half-dozen planes, poked her way across mid-Manhattan. Presently the biggest of the planes began to fly in a mile-circle around the dirigible, spewing a lengthening white plume of vapor behind her. The trail of smoke dripped downward until it hung like a great white curtain completely concealing the airship. Paramount Sound News men, who staged the stunt, ground their cameras busily. As the Los Angeles climbed above the smoke screen and headed for home, the white vapor continued...
Rose Milligan, a barmaid in Louth, Ireland, whose nom de plume on the ticket was "My Pub Now" because she had always wanted to own a saloon. She said that with her $50,000 she would...
...Union. But its career of influence really began after the Civil War when the Free Press (a violent anti-Slavery paper) was edited by William E. Quinby. In the 44 years of his control, Editor Quinby developed the late Charles B. Lewis, whose humor made famous the nom de plume "M. Quad." Poet Guest he hired as an office boy. Robert Barr ("Luke Sharp") worked for him many a year before going to London to found The Idler with Jerome K. Jerome. The paper ceased to be the DEMOCRATIC Free Press in 1806 when it repudiated the nomination of William...
...this time that he became AE. He wrote under the pseudonym of Aeon, but because of his illegible handwriting the typesetters on the papers to which his first efforts were contributed, unable to read the signature, printed only the first two letters. He has kept this nom de plume ever since...