Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There they sing songs of war-not bawdy ditties or rousing marches, but strange and awesome chants. This lyricism, now solo, now antiphonal, now choral, is a poetic, formalized utterance. The diction is abominable-words can only be guessed at-but the import of these Gaelic spirituals can be felt. Mystic and throbbing, they express the soldiers' gruesome mission and man's revolt from the ghastliness he has made for himself...
Scorning his self-designed "Japanese" bed with its carved and gilded dragon headboard, he sat upright by his desk, his soft felt trench cap on his big head, grey woolen gloves on his hands, writing, correcting proof, revising his new book that is so nearly ready, between fits of drowsing in his chair...
...high grew Fascist tension that on Prince Umberto's return to Italy he felt obliged to respond to cheering with the Fascist salute. Previously H. R. H., like other young Royalist officers, has used the military salute. Standing on a balcony of the Royal Palace in Milan, while a Fascist mob made pandemonium below, the Heir of Italy for the first time raised his right arm stiff-elbowed and with palm extended, aped II Duce...
...minutely perfect scale model of a locomotive and train which cost $1,100. the gift of the Rasitza Locomotive Works. This year King Mihai has been asking for an equally elaborate tug boat, complete with miniature barges. But there was no such gift last week. No barge company had felt the urge. Tactfully His Majesty's mother, frugal Princess Helen, explained that he would receive presents from the Royal Family not on his real birthday but on his name day, the custom in Rumania. However there was a nice gentleman waiting in the antechamber with quite...
...years she took care of the children herself and did all her own washing, ironing and cooking. . . . She has always been head of the household and was christened by one of the children Chairman of the House Committee. . . . When I rose to speak, after I had her located, I felt I was all right. . . . She has openly proclaimed that she thinks I am the greatest man in the world...