Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convention heard all about the Schoonmaker injunction from Lee Hall, a United Mine Worker from Columbus, Ohio. Speeches were fiery in denunciation of "government by injunction. " Vice President Matthew Woll adjured his brethren to bring the issue before the country "dramatically, tragically, if necessary," and reiterated what Labor has felt ever since the U. S. Supreme Court's celebrated "Stonecutter Decision,"* that the Sherman Anti-Trust Law and the Clayton Act, once enthusiastically backed by Labor, are weapons that have turned in Labor's hand to Labor's own destruction...
...Assistant Secretary of War Hanford MacNider. The Acting Secretary of War was, for the moment, Brigadier General Briant Harris Wells, Deputy Chief of Staff. Perhaps it was to save General Wells the embarrassment of giving an order to General Summerall, his superior in rank, that President Coolidge, who suddenly felt and announced a desire to see General Summerall, sent personally for General Summerall, with a directness that seemed almost peremptory. The General cut short his inspection tour and started for Washington. At the White House, no direct evidence could be discovered that the President was conscious of what the General...
...Felt more sorrows than could fill a sonnet...
...experienced, the first purpose is sufficiently accomplished by one examination at the end of each course. There is no need for the second use one studies or flunks. One examination would be sufficient to disclose the knowledge of a college course too, but the stimulus of frequent examinations is felt by all perhaps erroneously to be necessary in order not to place too much responsibility for doing his work on the under classman. It is probably, in the main, sound sense because the underclassman usually over estimates his own ability to absorb information in a lump at the eleventh hour...
...Metabel felt lonely; and, save for her dog, Musket, she was all alone as she stepped through the woods that lay along Hemlock mountain. Finally she came to a little low cottage where she went in and stayed. In the cottage lived Uncle Henry, a severe and matter-of-fact person, with his nephew Joseph. There was also Isaiah, an old grey horse and a wasp who lived in the attic and was the largest apple-owning wasp in the county. Down the valley, in Wayne, there lived Prissy Deakan who had, the summer before, put up no less than...