Word: scrawl
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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...
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...
...Goods. To the White House last week went the leaders of the Congress to deliver the goods-the Neutrality Act that Franklin Roosevelt wanted-and see him scrawl his bold signature...
...people will never pull together. The Teuton looks down on a canaille of unwashed peasants; the Italian recoils from the Nordic boor whose barbarous jargon hurts Dantesque eardrums. The two flags cannot wave together for long. Compared with the noble Roman fasces, Hitler's Aryan swastika is a scrawl from a child's copybook...
That the younger generation has suddenly blossomed forth with a real interest in exploration was revealed when, on investigating the visitor's register at the Geographical Institute, the firm but jumbled scrawl of none other than Teddy Conant, younger son of the President, appeared among a host of learned dignitaries...