Word: quill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flynn, Bill Jackson, and Paul Champion figure as the only changes in the tentative starting lineup, which, for once, has not been further weakened by injuries suffered during practice. Flynn, who has been playing at the tailback position, has been shifted to wingback to replace Herb Fritts. Jackson quill fill Flynn's former post, and Champion, who played briefly in the Rochester game, will start at right end in place of don Swegan...
...American point of view was not presented at the rally by a State Department official, but by such left-wing spokesmen as Michael J. Quill, president of Manhattan's powerful Transport Workers Union, and Norman Corwin, radio writer. Also present to provide the glamor expected on such an occasion were Sono Osato, Luba Malina, Margo and the Broadway stars. (Frank "Harvey" Fay, a Roman Catholic, later went roaring to Actors' Equity against participation of stage folk in "a Red meeting" where the Roman Catholic Church was denounced...
...cheerful, ruddy-faced clergyman who had given up his parish to become a book agent (the Episcopal Church in the South was demoralized after the Revolution), Parson Weems for 31 years bounced over the early U.S. roads with his Jersey wagon loaded with good books. He carried a quill pen stuck in his hat, an inkhorn in his lapel, and his fiddle on the wagon seat beside him. "He stopped now and then at a pond or a stream to wash his shirt and take a bath, suspending his linen to dry on the frame of the wagon...
...corner. But he 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...
...possessive itch. The plates are so handsome as to prove that, even in reproduction, fine drawings can give a tactile pleasure in addition to their esthetic worth. De Tolnay's definition of drawing includes some forms of watercolor work, and the whole range of tools -swan and goose quill, silverpoint, chalk, charcoal, pencil. His "Old Masters" range from an unknown Egyptian artist's outline drawing of Rameses IV to a 18th Century sleeping figure by Toulouse-Lautrec. Along the way are such choice items as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's gracious chalk masterpiece Head of a Youth...