Word: featly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annals of court medicine. In a day when only God could save a King, a typical court quack was John of Gaddesden (probably Chaucer's "verrey parfit practisour"). John went so far as to publish a list of ailments that, financially, were beneath his notice. His gaudiest feat: curing Edward I's son of smallpox by swaddling the boy in scarlet robes, confining him to a room hung with scarlet drapes, claiming that the color's influence turned the trick. The 17th century court physician had less brass. When France's young Louis XIV caught syphilis...
Tackle: Jim Marshall, 20, Ohio State; 6 ft. 3 in., 222 lbs. Junior. Major: physical education. Fine blocker, fast-reacting on defense, has speed enough to outrun many backs, performed an incredible feat for a lineman against Purdue by running for two touchdowns with a blocked punt and an intercepted pass; a probable high pro choice next year...
...Shredded Feat. In Metropolis, Ill., Carl Bock, 19, held up Fitch's Dime Store, got away with a bag full of cash, was fleeing through a parking lot when his pistol fired into the bag, scattering money in all directions...
...Excuse. In the end, Rozhestvensky produced a feat of logistics perhaps unequaled until World War II: an unbroken journey of 4,500 miles from Madagascar to the coast of Cochin China, despite 39 stops to repair tow lines, more than 70 engine breakdowns. And it was with oxlike fortitude that he brought his two wallowing columns into battle off Tsushima (literally Donkey's Ears Island). Maneuvering for position, Togo took his column through a perilous column turn and closed with nearly 500 guns blazing. The Russian ships, which had damaged three major enemy ships, failed to score a single...
While Handlin finds his influence divisive, Schlesinger noted last year in a review of Curley's own book, I'd Do It Again, "his sublime satisfaction in the successful struggle of the Irish community of Boston for political and social influence." It would be no academic feat these days to suggest that the two may be reconciled: that, in the name of all that is most Irish, Curley was urging his fellows to assume in political influence, social prestige and fact, with Curley, mind you, always at their head, a posture indistinguishable from that of the old proper Bostonians...