Once jailed in Birmingham for almost inciting a race riot, she is chiefly remembered for tossing an inkpot at the Italian vice consul in 1935 (on the grounds that he was a .
She dips her pen into the inkpot of romance, melodrama or suspense and aims it like a dagger at the heart of the defenseless reader, who is usually quite willing to hold still for .
Martin Luther threw his inkpot; Billy finished the notes in longhand and hurried to Madison Square Gardenonly to find that he had lost them on the way.