Word: scrawl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will dash to a nearby hospital to amuse bedridden children. His favorite device for 30 years has been the "Quizz-wizz." He thrusts a pencil into a child's hand, holds a pad of paper under it, jiggles the child's elbow. Then he sketches lines around the meaningless scrawl, telling a story as he goes, finally completing a drawing of a grotesque animal...
...picked this chair because it is comfortable to sit in while the gas is on. Just sitting back and relaxing. It won't be long now. I want to be buried in these clothes. I am going going, going. Ha! ha! . . ." The note ended in an undecipherable scrawl...
...Vagabond's mind ran on until it reached the present. What could the inmates of a house plan upon departing leave behind them? What footprints on the sands of time? Would a man dare to touch the smooth serenity of a Dunster fireplace? Could he scrawl on H. A. Q. '32 upon a new white slab. Alas, what chance has any man to leave behind him a little unremembered act, to write his name upon the panels of the future? Such are the penalties of sophistication, such the trials of luxury. Men will come, remain, and depart like the seal...
...seek happiness in marriage while my father and mother and eldest brother are in prison." In Ahmedabad the Government seized St. Gandhi's spinning wheel, clock, cup board, two iron safes, $10 in cash and a typewriter. Unperturbed, the Mahatma in his cell at Yerovda Jail continued to scrawl letter after letter on morals, health, religion and the rearing of children...
...illustrate this talk Mr. Allen will make use of the exhibition of personal relies of Amy Lowell which was put on view yesterday. Among these are notebooks written in her scrawl at nine years of age, while in Berlin. In these can be found her first efforts at verse. There are also manuscripts of later poems showing how well she chose her words and constructed and fitted her lines. Letters, notes for her lectures in Boston on Keats and Matthew Arnold, and many photographs complete the collection...