Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman Reed Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee and Secretary Mellon of the Treasury engaged last week in a solemn exchange of letters-for-publication. Senator Smoot suggested, Secretary Mellon agreed, that it might be wise to "delay" action of the Revenue Act of 1928 until after March 15, when the 1927 income tax returns will be available...
...Representatives' membership of 435 there is not enough hair on the involved faces to stuff a pin cushion. . . . "The more lenient critics believe we are unacquainted with contemporary poetry. Well, has there been any poetry lately? . . . "Belasco could recruit a troupe from our groups-Borah, the hero; Jim Reed, the villain; and Blanton, the mob scene! . . . "The press gallery often catches and transmits the noisy nothings at the discomfiture of the aggregate wisdom. Those journals, sniffing for human interest effluvia, prefer parliamentary riots and such outbreaks as the Battle of Blanton and Bloom to the interpretation of drab statistics...
...Pompeian artisan pounded a sheet of bronze into the shape of a reed pen. It served well for writing. Then Pompeii was drowned in Vesuvian dust and barbarians destroyed what part of Rome that the Romans themselves did not destroy. Men forgot metal pens...
...ancient with an inventive mind discovered by cutting off the butt end of a feather on a bevel that he had a tube shaped like a reed pen. It also served for writing; it was a quill pen. Who that ancient was no one, of course, knows. However, St. Isidore of Seville, in the early part of the 7th Century, remarked that he was writing his pages with both a kalamos made of a reed and a quill plucked from a bird. Writers used such quills?usually made from the stout wing feathers of the ever-present goose?into...
Steel pens, made to slip into a holder, were a 19th Century development, although some experiments occured before. Scientist Joseph Priestly, in 1780, designed and ordered made a steel pen that resembled a quill, just as anciently the quill imitated the reed. Birmingham, Eng., became the home of the steel pen; it continues so. In the U. S. Camden, N. J., where the Esterbrook Steel Pen Mfg. Co. was established in 1860, has been the great center...