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Word: quill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charge Here? contains altogether 159 of the delicate lunacies, the scenes of bizarre domestic confusion exquisitely rendered with a crow quill pen which have made The New Yorker's George Price one of the most popular of U.S. comic artists. One industrious hobby ist is shown completing a parlor-sized steam engine right in the parlor it is sized to fit. His wife wanly observes: "Some times I even wish he'd get interested in another woman." Another character, the father of a crowded and bewildered family, is at last able to explain to them the curio which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Prices in Line | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

MICHAEL J. QUILL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 9, 1943 | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...Then the news report was bum. TIME'S apologies to Labor Leader Quill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 9, 1943 | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

Hague was so flabbergasted that he could only mutter through his jowls: "I don't know anything about it." Grumbled bat-eared Michael J. Quill, head of the Transportation Workers Union, himself often tagged with a Red label: "Hague is a bum and always was a bum, and I don't think you can whitewash him just because he says he supports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hold That Line! | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

Thus, once again I stir from the obscurity of the "behind-the-scenes" life which is a Yeoman's fate, and take up my eager quill. All stray feathers resulting therefrom may be returned to the Navy Office...

Author: By Yeoman RICHARD Brill, | Title: ELECTRONICS SCHOOL | 7/1/1943 | See Source »

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