Word: scrawl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the paper. Next he tried his hand at the Purple Parrot, Northwestern's comic sheet, turned out a parody American Mercury, with a story about prostitutes, that resulted in the Parrot's suppression. As his farewell to collegiate belles-lettres, Walliser took over the high-brow Scrawl, had that suppressed when he tried to build up circulation with an article attacking marriage...
...John Haynes Holmes, pastor of Manhattan's Community Church: "He has taken Columbia into the European war before the Government has gone in." The New York Herald Tribune hissed: "L'Universite, c'est moil" On the bulletin board of Columbia's Law School appeared a scrawl: "Heil Butler...
Villa-Lobos realized that music could thus be charted from business indices, people's profiles (turned on their side), or even a random scrawl. As director of Brazil's public musical education, he tried out his idea on school children. Last week many a Brazilian moppet, playing at composing, drew jagged lines on paper, superimposed them on a millimetric chart (with the chromatic scale only), rushed to a piano to hear the result...