Word: penning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PENN 3 0 *CORNELL 4 1 BROWN 3 1 PRINCETON 4 2 DARTMOUTH 4 2 YALE 2 4 COLUMBIA 1 5 HARVARD 0 6 *Pen plays Cornell for championship in Philadelphia Thursday...
...most startling work in the group, apart from aesthetic considerations, is his pen drawing, "The White General," dated 1919. Standing against a background of human misery and brutality, is an exact representation of the Nazi of World War H--complete with Storm Trooper helmet and swastika insignia. Grosz saw things very clearly 30 years...
...tweedy, grey-bearded Londoner of 59 who made his name as a poster designer. "But during the war," says Cooper, "my interest in posters faded. I found my hands were functioning without any volition. The first results were doodles, then automatic writing. I thought 'If my pen is doing this, why not the brushes?' One day my hand shot out. Much to my astonishment it picked up a brush and drew on a board...
Matinees & Poetry. Helen Hokinson was the recording secretary of the clubwoman, the gentle, penetrating chronicler of the upper-middle-class matron. In 24 years of cartooning for The New Yorker (circ. 325,000), she limned her ladies with pen and wash more than 1,700 times-at the dressmaker's, in banks and bookshops, at matinees and flower shows, bridge clubs and poetry societies...
With a quick squiggle of his pen, President Truman last week signed a law calculated to please both U.S. tourists and the foreign merchants who load them down with perfumes, silks, tweeds, genuine shrunken heads, and other souvenirs. From now on, Americans who go abroad on trips of twelve days or longer can bring in $500 in goods duty free (the old limit was $400). The exemption on shorter trips goes up from...