Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reigning house would be a comparatively simple matter. But it seems that the increase of unconventionality has brought a new set of problems that make that life of a prince a delicate matter. The Prince of Wales, the most prominent of the younger royal set, having substituted a felt hat for a crown and flannel trousers for princely regalia, is said to have been a disappointment to Spain. Evidently Spain expected a more traditional sort of dignity. The sobriquet that young Edward earned was "Prince of Jazz", and the epithet does not seem to have been meant favorably...
More airplanes came to Princeton and droned above the elms. Dean Gauss said nothing. Students paid $3 apiece for five-minute rides in commercial craft, just to fly over Nassau Hall and snap their fingers. Dean Gauss said nothing. Everyone felt sure that Dean Gauss would enunciate a new prohibition, but Dean Gauss said nothing-until last week, when he unexpectedly proclaimed an interpretation of his anti-motor vehicle edict which the laziest of campus sag-spines had to admit partook of Solomonic cunning. "We have so many machines on the ground," Dean Gauss began blandly, "that...
...Society and the Individual" and "The Nation and the Society of Nations", the eminent educator stressed not only the duties which the individual owes to the state, and to his fellow citizens, but also the duties of the United States owed to the rest of the world, which, he felt, call for this country's joining the World Court as the "irreducible minimum of our international obligations...
...TIME, May 11, 1925. At the time Chancellor Churchill had just re-established the pound on a gold standard, and reimposed the McKenna duties on foreign imports, a reversal of Mr. Snowden's policy, felt by him to advantage chiefly the rich...
...directors felt obliged to do this because their own conduct has been slovenly. Value of the Board of Trade depends upon public confidence in the honesty of its members, and all too often that honesty has been doubted. The Federal Government already pretends to supervise transactions on the Chicago Board of Trade, and the Illinois legislature last week sought laws to regulate the Board, similar to the laws by which New York legislators control the New York Stock Exchange. Board members hope that they can tighten up their own already existing rules and thus avoid the further fussings of lawmakers...