Word: quilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clemenceau's home," said she in Paris, "I was warned above all not to put rouge on my lips, and not to wear high-heeled shoes. 'Clemenceau has a horror of all those things in women,' I was told. Moreover, I had to use a goose quill pen, because the Tiger always hated the grating of steel pens. I consented to sacrifice these feminine vanities, and went not without trembling to the door of this 'terror of ministers,' this irascible enemy of governments...
...stood up, and unexpectedly revealed the stunted discomfort of deformity. Then another impression came upon one-the uneasiness produced by an enigma: what could the combination of that beautifully explicit countenance with that shameful, crooked posture really betoken? He returned to the table, and once more took up his quill; all, once more, was perspicuous serenity...
...Dictator is now a ripe 45 and world-great. But he was only a raw 26 and a nobody, when, with galloping quill, he dashed his novel upon foolscap, in weekly installments, for a Socialist newspaper...
...other great powers on the question of ignoring Article X and forming a posse, with Sheriff America at its head, to hunt down the outlaw Mars. Meanwhile America is preparing a great navy building program with one hand while with the other she pens with dove's quill resolutions for Pan-American Conferences and Franco-American treaties of amity. Meanwhile the paradox at home has an international twin; only one obstacle of size stands in the way of a multilateral treaty outlawing war among the great powers. That obstacle is the League of Nations...
While Chancellor Marx pondered the goose quill's command, last week, enemies of Paul von Hindenburg raised a feeble cry that it is "unconstitutional" for him to throw his immense influence into the political scale. They carpingly pointed out that, although the new presidential epistle stresses the need of postponing a general election until the budget and other, bills can be rushed through, the "real" concern of President Hindenburg may lie ill delaying as long as possible that shift to the political left which is generally prognosticated as the result of the coming election...