Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...selection of exhibits. If an artist so desires, he can hang himself in the place allotted him. It is completely free from censorship. Everything offered is exhibited. This record is stained by but one smirch: a year ago a painter succeeded in executing a work which the Society felt it was unable to present...
What Mary Means to Catholics: As Mary-veneration grew, from the 6th Century on, Roman Catholics felt more and more that her peculiar relation to the Godhead fitted her especially as a sort of kindly mother before whom unworthy sinners might lay their prayers with the best hopes of a successful intervention with the "remote and awful Godhead." In early times, St. Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople called her "the only bridge of God to man." Even John Wyclif, pre-Reformation "heretic" said: "It seems impossible to me that we should obtain the reward of heaven without the help of Mary...
...higher promotion requirements, suffered rather severely from them. An unusual effort was made with the Class of 1928 to help it meet the new requirements, with the result that it made as good a record as the last class which had only the lower requirements to meet. It was felt, however, that such a careful following of the individual Freshman as was then made would not be altogether the best thing for them when they passed to the Sophomore year and began to do upper-class work; and accordingly the pressure and supervision from the office were slightly relaxed...
...From every point of view, Kerensky and his followers felt that Russia should stand by her allies in the great struggle, but the country and the people were exhausted and could hardly go on. The Bolsheviks were the only ones, however, who openly advocated the making of a separate peace with Germany. They succeeded in stirring the people up to the point of seizing the power in November 1917, and in arresting all members of the Kerensky government except Kerensky himself. He was forced to leave Russia, and Lenin took over the reins of government. Soon after the new regime...
Asked if, when he smiled in front of each audience, he really felt happy, or simply made others think so, Toto replied. "Yes, I'm always happy, and the response of the audience doesn't affect me in the least. Sometimes, I don't even hear their applause, and it is very seldom that I see them. You see, when I'm on stage, I alwas squint," (and here he demonstrated for his interviewer.) "That closes my eyes...