Word: scrawl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department an OK for the reassignment of General G. B. Pillsbury as assistant chief of engineers. Like MacArthur. Pillsbury already had served four years on this job, was reassigned to serve four more. But attached to the OK was a slip of paper on which was scrawled: "There are to be no further reassignments of general officers beyond the regular four-year period." Below the scrawl were the initials...
...with him Johnson finally said, "Young man, you ought to come to America." Insull answered: "I'd only go to America if I could be private secretary to Mr. Edison." Johnson promptly wrote a letter of recommendation to Edison. The same letter came back to London with a scrawl across it in Edison's writing: "Send him over." In February 1881, Insull sailed; 14 days later he arrived after dark at Menlo Park. Edison began dictating at once, finally stopped at midnight and said "You'd better get some sleep. I'll need you again...
...many a town the station agent ran out of tickets and had to scrawl railway passes on odd bits of cardboard. By train, by bus, by tram, by motor, by cart and by foot, every Belgian who could move went to Brussels last week to see a great King buried, to hear a new King proclaimed...
Other loafers came running, gaped, pointed, shouted, and threatened to burn the church down. Police were called, then Republican Guards and the Fire Department before the riot ended and the church was saved. Perspiring police explained that that scrawl had been on the church for 20 years, was not supposed to be King Alfonso at all but the greatest bullfighter of modern times, swarthy, limping Juan Vincente Belmonte, now retired...
...exciting experience of my career (I am not yet an old man) was when one of the smaller London booksellers walked into my London shop. He offered me a four volume folio edition of Bacon. "It ought to be worth *5, gov'nor," he said, "but some fool has scrawled all over the margins; so if you want it as it stands, you can have it for twenty-five shillings." The "fool" was Dr. Samuel Johnson; he had "scrawled" some five thousand times, using these volumes as the backbone of his famous dictionary. A dollar per scrawl...