Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since then (56 years) the Japanese people have been losing, ever so slowly, the disgust and loathing which they felt formerly for the Eta. In the Japanese army there are now two Generals who are said to be of the "unclean". Reputedly they dare not admit this stigma, and only speak to others of their class in secret places, usually at night. At the Imperial University of Kyoto only one instructor has admitted that he is of the "Defiled Ones." Each year he defiantly announces to his students: "I am an Eta. Let any who are revolted not seek...
...Schwimmer, a Hungarian, has an international reputation as author, lecturer, pacifist, has frequently accused the U. S. of "militarism." Her eloquence helped in persuading Henry Ford that he could take an ocean trip and stop the World War-a proceeding which was generally felt to have added much to the existent European impression of the U. S. as a country richly peopled with moneyed madmen...
...picturesque of the four. Reared in that fin-de-siècle British atmosphere that supplied Margot, Viscountess Oxford & Asquith with long, pendent earrings, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde with a sunflower boutonnière and Winston S. Churchill with a paunch, Montagu Collet Norman affects a soft felt hat, bow necktie and a superbly pugnacious goatee. Like his contemporaneous compatriots his wit is keen, his thinking sharp, his knowledge authoritative. Born in 1871, he has been Governor of the Bank of England since...
...original draft Minstrel Emmett put a few new touches, rhymed "cotton" and "forgotten," changed the tempo, handed his chief what he felt was a botched job. But next evening, the audience swayed to the new tune, caught the words easily, especially the "hoorays." It was one of those songs that people sing leaving the theatre. Soon the whole country sang it, echoing it into the end of last week...
...came Governor General of the Philippine Islands Leonard Wood. No other U. S. citizen has had so long or so distinguished a colonial career as General Wood, whom four Presidents (McKinley, Roosevelt, Harding, Coolidge) have placed to take charge of U. S. colonies.* Yet last week it was generally felt that the Governor General had come home to stay. For General Wood returned a sick man, his future career depending upon the decision of doctors whom he will later consult in the East. They will be called upon to consider the following disabilities...