Word: scrawl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upstate New York's Rochester Democrat & Chronicle in 1886 came an indignant letter from one of its newsboys. Protesting that he had been billed 6? too much for his papers, ten-year-old Frank Ernest Gannett demanded that the error be "rectified," added in his boyish scrawl: "I have always meet my bills...
...Double Check. In Roanoke, Va., after banks bounced five checks because they couldn't read the signatures, cops tracked down Kenny Calhoun, got him to admit that he persuaded store clerks to fill out checks for him, signed them with a meaningless scrawl, did his forging in this way because he couldn't read or write...
...pored over for years to come, that he scarcely ever dashed off a hasty or unconsidered line. Even letters that were never intended to be sent were rewritten, annotated, polished. This bulky volume of his Letters is the record of a man's life, from the childish scrawl of an eight-year-old ("It has been raining here for two or three days") to the moving, final word of a dying man of 37 who has a "hunch" that the end is near...
...managers all over the world, cables and detailed monthly reports all flow directly to Reed in New York. He is constantly mulling ways to expand and improve the company's business. He seldom goes to bed before 2 a.m., frequently wakes up in the night to scrawl notes on the pad beside...
...have an interest in a specific problem. He can and does hold over their heads the fact that if they do not arrive at a reasonable solution he will write the recommendation himself-and his is the one that goes to President Eisenhower marked with the all-important scrawl...