Word: scrawl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little, Brown's staid conference room is a framed scrawl: "Please pay my Pa $100 on account and oblige, Yours truly, L. M. Alcott...
From a Lowell, Mass, admirer came prompt reaction in grave scrawl to Wendell Willkie's Lincoln Day address: "Dear Mr. Willkie, Your speech last night was very good. I heard my grandfather jump up and down. The poor cat and dog were scared stiff. In the afternoon I went out and slid with a tin pan. I am nine years old, and am in the fourth grade. Sincerely yours, Hilda Thompson...
...Winston Churchill. It was written in the angular Presidential scraggle, and addressed "to a certain naval person." In the exciting early days of the first Roosevelt Administration, Washington grew accustomed to such notes, sometimes a brief message of encouragement to some struggler in a new bureau, sometimes a hasty scrawl of thanks for work well done. But never had President Roosevelt surpassed the aptness of the note of introduction that Wendell Willkie carried to Winston Churchill. Nor was one of his messages ever answered so dramatically. In a powerful speech last week Britain's Prime Minister replied...
When he came out he had in his hand a note of introduction from Franklin Roosevelt to Winston Churchill, written in the bold Roosevelt scrawl, beginning "Dear Churchill" and introducing Willkie as one who had tried to keep politics out of U. S. defense and U. S. efforts to aid Britain. It was addressed "To a certain naval person, kindness of W. Willkie." Wendell Willkie was going to Britain with mighty U. S. encouragement. But he was going at a moment when the cleavage between himself and the isolationist Republicans-in the open before the Philadelphia Convention, under the surface...
...Leaves of Grass ("I greet you at the beginning of a great career"). John Brown writes his family from prison: "I am waiting the hour of my public murder with great composure of mind." Captain Robert Falcon Scott holds off death in the Antarctic long enough to scrawl: "We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit. ..." Dying, Lenin warns the Bolsheviks to remove Stalin from power before it is too late...