Word: scrawling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until 2:15 p. m. did Foreign Minister Rada y Gamio scrawl his signature for the 138th time onto the final document giving the very last parcel of Tacna to Peru...
...have many loyal friends in the United States and I should not want them to be under any misapprehension." Possibly as M. de Polignac walked into his cabin, No. 203, he glanced at the card on the door of cabin 205. There, written in a steward's slanting scrawl, was the name: M. Clarence Darrow. Count de Polignac generally speaks English with only a trace of a French accent. Nevertheless the Graphic reported his final gangplank words as: "Those who ordered me, Count de Polignac, to ze jail have trespass on my honaire. . . . "But here in America, when...
HOME TO HARLEM-Claude McKay-Harpers ($2.50). Jake, a Negro, home from the World War, picks up a warm brown girl in a Harlem cabaret, gives her his last $50, spends the night with her. Next morning, after leaving her, he discovers in his pocket the $50 with a scrawl attached: "Just a little gift from a baby girl to a honey boy." But Jake had lost her address. So he finds new women, old drinks; becomes a longshoreman, a third cook on a Pullman, a quiet enjoyer of metropolitan fleshpots. In the end-Negroes, too, like it happy-Jake...
...great painters, one of the supposedly most productive was Rembrandt Harmens Van Rijn (1606-1669). In the galleries of the world, 800 paintings of knights, beggars, saints, painters, are signed in a dark scrawl, Rembrandt f* There are 1,600 drawings, cornered with the same letters, 300 etchings. For nearly 300 years the world has been assured that these letters did not lie, that the energy which the Dutchman put into the figures on his canvas had enabled him also to produce a superhuman number of pictures. Yet there have been at times doubts cast on the genuineness of some...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh to President Calvin Coolidge. Flying from Pierre, S. Dak., to Cheyenne, Wyo., Colonel Lindbergh had come to drop a card to the President. The card was an engraved announcement that he was touring the country to promote commercial aviation. It was signed, in pencil scrawl, "Charles A. Lindbergh...