scrivening
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In her book Handwriting in America: A Cultural History, Tamara Plakins Thornton investigates how our scrivening came to “embody, regulate, and generate notions of the self.”
From Slate • Jan. 11, 2013
One does dread risking pretension when scrivening about the telly, but the show begs comparison with un incomparable spectacle de Jacques Tati.
From Slate • Sep. 23, 2011
He is thoroughly of New York state; born in Bristol, schooled at Ithaca, where he got his start scrivening for the undergraduate Cornell Sun.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He is 28, has been scrivening since he published an article in the Atlantic Monthly on student government at Kent School while he was a student there.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I'm no scrivening professor, but blood and flesh....
From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor