Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Wesley Langley, beloved soak, bleary-eyed disciple of Sir John Falstaff,† was ten times elected Congressman from Kentucky by bone-dry, Fundamentalist, Republican mountaineers. His tongue knew well the golden mellowness of old Kentucky "corn," his hand had felt the frost of tall mint juleps, but he remained faithful, legislatively, to the arid principles of his constituents. He had been arrested for intoxication in both Pikeville, Ky., and Washington, D. C., but Congressmen continued to admire his genial philosophy, his legal knowledge. He is now serving a two-year term in the Atlanta penitentiary for conspiracy to violate...
...Famed sack-consuming philosopher and companion of Prince Hal, he was later ousted from England, migrated to Germany. His descendants changed the family name to Folstadt, then to Volstadt. Most of the Volstadts were hearty beer drinkers, but not so the youngest son who felt the lure of the prairies of the New World. On arrival in the U. S. he changed his name to the simpler Volstead, little knowing that one of his progeny (Andrew by name) would some day put Volstead on the lips of teeming millions. (U. S. folk lore...
...garden at Wahnfried, Bayreuth, Bavaria. He was building a tomb in that garden, near where Liszt slept. Perhaps his German premiere would fail like his others. Then. . . . . But when he ambled vaguely down the aisle of his own theatre on the night of August 13, 1876, he felt he would not fail. His wife, Cosima, Liszt's daughter, talked excitedly, pointed to majestic Hans Richter. He was to direct. Wagner himself was calm, sat gazing stodgily at paunched barons, at fierce mustachioed warlords, at old Emperor William I who wiggled. Emperor William's back itched. This time barons...
...show boat Cotton Blossom, looks "like the River." The Significance. After hearing about show boats from Mr. Winthrop Ames, and rushing into the Midlands to amass properties and backdrops for a panoramic old-American production, Miss Ferber appears to have been so overcome by her discoveries that she felt justified in asking the audience to absorb and admire the stage-setting for 153 pages, before putting her characters in motion. Similarly, the reconstruction of Chicago is rich, racy but redundant. Splendid characters and material are worn down by overuse of the catalog sentence, repetition of scenes. Nevertheless, the material...
...stumpy body, clad now in a thin racing suit, cut away deeply under the arms. Gertrude Ederle (pronounced "Ed-er-ly") ran across the beach into the surf, briefly acknowledging the cheers of the crowd that had come to see her off. It was cold, she remarked as she felt the water, colder than last year. She struck out for England. When, after 14 hours and 31 minutes in the water, she had landed at Kingsdown Beach, beating by two hours the best male record for the Channel, herself the first woman in the world to swim across; when...