Word: typewritten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between conference chamber and court room the colonel bustled, snapping his fingers in summons, beckoning, bowing, whispering, glaring through his monocle. Once he emerged from conference with the air of a man whose adventurous patience is exhausted. Ostentatiously he tore up a typewritten sheet, announced for all to hear: "I'm all washed up." Back he went, however, to the conference room, like the leader of a forlorn hope. At last, after two days, peace seemed to be assured. Justice Dineen adjourned court and his decision until next...
...attack British literary lethargy from afar (i.e., Rapallo, Italy), while Poet Eliot played possum in the enemy camp. Lying low in a high place, Eliot never included in his published works various light verses about cats which his friends and a few children received from time to time, typewritten and unsigned. The present collection marks, among other things, Eliot's first public acknowledgment of possumhood...
...York Times's Arthur Krock laid alarmed hands on a little typewritten document by Stuart Chase. It was called Preliminary Suggestions for Standardizing Terminology, or First Aid to the Layman. Mr. Chase had prepared it for SEC's Temporary National Economic (antimonopoly) Committee. Its purpose was to prime Government examiners to use "good" words, avoid "bad" ones-the better to propagandize the New Deal. Excerpts...
...white fifth ward, became the most sensemaking of the 50 members of Chicago's City Council. Last week Professor-Alderman Douglas, having encountered one of the things that make a politician's life hard, devised his own way of facing it To his constituents he issued a typewritten appeal...
Coming back to his room, he opened the envelope cautiously. Out fell a two-page typewritten letter and a lot of enclosures from the Jane Fuller Club announcing that it could "secure just the kind of wife you want in a very short time." The letter ended with the command that Vag "act today! Why besitate? Satisfaction guaranteed...