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...like to try a twist at the tail of the cosmos," wrote the late "Great Dissenter," Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, to a philosopher friend. The letters, published for the first time last week, were composed in a scrawl and were knotty with Holmesian twists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...Spring came to Boston. Strollers on the Charles River Esplanade noticed a childish scrawl which read: "Orpheus loves Eurydice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 26, 1947 | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...with earth. Edouard knew that Bonnard loved color more than anything in the world, and he had bought a bunch of carnations to go with the somber wreaths. Tucked into the vivid crimson of Edouard's carnations was a white card. A mon cher Maitre, said the hesitant scrawl, avec mon regret eternel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Master & the Prodigy | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...Angeles, teachers are no longer required to pass a penmanship test before getting a job. Complained a supervisor: "It's not unusual to see a teacher drilling her class in writing and a few minutes later doing blackboard work in an unreadable scrawl that is entirely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Nation of Scrawlers | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

Last week Meditation's tobacco tones had disappeared, and so had Mantegna's signature. In its place was a faint scrawl. The Museum explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 16th Century Fraud | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

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