Word: felix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mind, and been dismally primitive. To Edmund Wilson, Mencken was, "the civilized consciousness of America . . . realzing the grossness of its manners and its mind, crying out in horror and chagrin . . ." His battles with the censors, one of which caused him to invade Boston and which also caused Felix Caragianes, the Square newsdealer, to be arrested for selling Mencken's "Mercury," are no less admirable today than yesterday. Mr. Kemler's recounting of the Boston incident and the Scopes "Monkey Trial" (he contends that "perhaps" Scopes was influenced by Mencken's writing) makes lively reading...
...Friar Felix at Large, by H. F. M. Prescott. The rough and rocky road to Jerusalem as traveled by 15th Century Frater Felix Fabri and described with Chaucerian zest in his own account; retold in a good night's reading by Novelist Prescott (TIME, April...
After two months of studying U.S. pedagogy, Count Felix von Luckner, famed German sea raider of World War I, set sail for Germany, where he will help teach democracy to the kinder. The count's parting observation: "You know, I love America...
...Friar Felix at Large, by H. F. M. Prescott. The rough and rocky road to Jerusalem as traveled by 15th Century Frater Felix Fabri, and described with Chaucerian zest in his own account; retold in a good night's reading by Novelist Prescott (TIME, April...
...Friar Felix at Large, by H. F. M. Prescott. The rough and rocky road to Jerusalem as traveled by 15th Century Frater Felix Fabri and described with Chaucerian zest in his own account; retold in a good night's reading by Novelist Prescott (TIME, April...