Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark runner on the road, Saul of Tarsus coursing the world with his vision. It is the first non-love-story Donn Byrne has written, the attempt of a prose-poet in his late thirties to achieve an ascetic spiritual masterpiece. The success of the effort will be strongest felt by strangers to the earlier Byrne manner. People who remember and relish how Messer Marco Polo was drawn to the Old Man of the Mountains by white magic, for example, will have difficulty distinguishing between florid fantasy and sincere interpretation when it is told how Saul overcame the snuffling...
...about people under their pictures are sometimes little short of disgusting. What a blasphemy to print the photograph of saintly Joseph Lister and underneath it say: "They reminded him of sewage." I wish my husband was here to write you the indignation he, a doctor, would have felt at your indecency. "Joseph Lister slopped carbolic acid."' Ugh I Evidently you never heard that medicine is a ministry. I am sure Dr. Lister performed his miracles with grace...
Once their success seemed so doubtful that General Manager Naokishi offered to commit hara kiri, if she felt that he had mismanaged. For answer Mme. Suzuki turned over her entire affairs to M. Naokishi and went off with her children for a summer in the mountains. When she returned bankruptcy had been averted, and soon the War boom made her Japan's richest woman...
...time has its publisher or its editor felt entirely free to edit the magazine in that spirit of complete independence which is so necessary to a critical literary magazine...
...Iowa, where his family had gone in wagons, he felt the vast age and oneness of life. It amused him to say that since his direct ancestors numbered millions 30 generations ago, therefore he was descended from the entire English-speaking race. Running up his family tree eight branches he would drop down two and land on Benjamin Franklin, "the bourgeois." The Nile, he would say, is an upstart compared to the Mississippi. Five-toed little Eohippus lived for him in his farm horse, Daisy...