Word: penning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vice President Curtis looked over President Hoover's right shoulder, watched him pick up a pen, dip it in ink, write at the bottom of the document the word "Herbert." Then he put the pen down. Speaker Longworth, on the left, watched him pick up a second pen, dip it in ink, write the word '"Hoover." Then the President looked up, smiled. He had got at last what he wanted as farm relief...
...handed the first pen to Chairman McNary of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and the second to Chairman Haugen of the House Committee on Agriculture who, with many another, were ranked behind him for the ceremony. "Now, all still for just a minute. . . . Look this way, Mr. President! Once more now!" cried the newscamera...
Wrote he: "If the Syndicat does not support me in this affair in which I am trapped . . . whalebone dealers will be able to attack fashion chroniclers who write against corsets. ... On that day there will be no more liberty of the pen, there will be no freedom of appreciation, there will be no more journalists, and there will be no further use for the Syndicate of Journalists. Allow me to believe in its usefulness...
...proximity of man, then in edging them slowly toward the corral. The corral has a funnel shaped entrance wide at the outside. Into the wide part troop the unsuspecting horses, then the passageway narrows and soon they pour through the funnel's spout and into the pen. Last week Catcher Skelton and his band, either because of natural exuberance or because of the upsetting effect of a bad thunderstorm, stampeded a bunch of horses on their way to the corral. There followed a thundering herd effect which would have gladdened any cinemactor's heart. The lightning flashed...
Pages from my pen will flow...