Word: penmanship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little suitcase he had some old pages, scrawled over in a faint curlicue handwriting, which he had recently purchased. These old pages, now bound into heavy leather volumes each stamped with the Scottish crest, were old letters and manuscripts, mostly unpublished, mostly written in the thin legible penmanship of James Boswell...
...reference devices. S. E. Thomason, business manager of the Chicago Tribune, brought out a bank deposit slip and made the pupils total it up- a test of reliability in practical arithmetic. Other tests were given, by qualified testers, in literary taste, good manners, music, history, civics, composition, penmanship, drawing, art appreciation, safety methods. At the end, Superintendent McAndrew declared himself well satisfied. He felt sure the pupils were learning the things expected of them by their parents and the taxpaying public. His seven appraisers shared his view-appraisers drawn from city clubs, the Association of Commerce, the postoffice. Soon, declared...
Died. Mrs. Alice Brown Bartlett, 84, at 22 appointed secretary to Queen Victoria "on account of her exquisite and exemplary penmanship," daughter of Alice Death of the noted British shipbuilding family of that name; at the Old People's Home, Omaha...
...Penmanship is the occasion of comparatively few occupational diseases. Yet during the early months of 1923 mortality has been high in the literary fraternity. At least eight well-known names have joined the roster of the dead. It is noteworthy, however, that all but one of these passed away ripe in years. The exception is Katherine Mansfield, whose death came upon her in mid-career. The others...
...magnificent ? the lady of the awe-inspring brow and grave yard contralto who tore The Raven to tatters on the slightest provocation, the cadaverous youth who was so comic delivering Farmer Corn-tassel at the County Fair ? these, with the hansom-cab-driver and the professor of penmanship who drew little birds with flowing scrolls in their beaks, are rapidly passing into oblivion. Alas...