Word: felix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...angry "noes" sounded like votes. Pepper in turn called attention to Smathers' birthplace in Atlantic City, N.J., denounced him as a damyankee intruder. To which Smathers would answer that he himself was a University of Florida graduate, while Pepper deserted his native state to go north to Harvard. "Felix Frankfurter had nothing to do with my education," boomed Smathers. "Alger Hiss is no classmate of mine. I don't travel under the Crimson banner of Harvard...
...Friar Felix at Large, by H. F. M. Prescott. The rough and rocky road to Je rusalem as traveled by 1 5th Century -Frater Felix Fabri, and described with Chaucerian zest in his account; retold in a good night's reading by Novelist Prescott (TIME, April...
Pulp novels have a fast turnover, among a limited group. Titles at Felix's stay about the same: "Virgin With Butterflies," "Reckless Virgin," "Passion Girl." The man in charge explained that a customer for these usually bought a serious journal as well. "A man comes in and first he buys the New Republic or Time," he said. "Then he stands around and looks at these for a while, and finally he buys one. When he goes out, the New Republic is on top." As for Radcliffe: "Frankly, I think the girls are just bashful...
...Collectors by Land. On trips through open country they were stopped by Arab bands, and forced to give a head tax. One time Felix almost gave his head, when a mounted Arab ran full tilt at him and "tore my cap off" with his lance. If it wasn't the Moslems it was their bats, which were reputed to bite off the noses of strangers and fly away with them. "Men who have long noses," Felix concluded soberly, "are in greater danger than others...
...strong wine] till the bottles were empty." Some of the priests got into a wrangle over their turn to celebrate Mass, and the lay pilgrims were forced to intervene. And then there were those pilgrims who went about scratching their names on everything in sight, and hunting for souvenirs. Felix's own "irreproachable" collection of relics included pebbles from holy places and thorned twigs from the Mount of Olives...