Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paused a moment as if in thought. When Mr. Roosevelt was not excited or aroused or happy he was just quiet. He was not a man to look either tired or sad. That was one of the rare occasions when he looked both weary and saddened. And I felt sure then that as his excitement waned the personal injury produced by the desertion of so many men he had counted on weighed heavily on his spirit. He shook his head a little sadly. Then he smiled and sort of tossed the mood off: " 'Oh well, James...
...smaller† American denominations; it is quite exclusive in its relationships to other communions, has of late years assigned itself a status toward civic affairs in Washington and New York for which its qualifications are of questionable origin and its performance inadequate. If it proposes to make its powers felt by means of cathedrals it should supply the money to build them from its own members and not solicit gifts from other denominations." Jerusalem Kirk. In the Holy City the president of the court of appeal looked about him, noted Scotsmen passing the Christian Sabbath desolate. They had no church...
...possesses only five dollars fancy he has caught you in the act of stealing one of them and you have started a fight. Last week the franc plunged suddenly from 40 to the dollar to nearly 50. Frenchmen, clutching crisp or crinkly banknotes, felt their wealth oozing from them as insidiously as though they grasped a handful of slime. What to do? "Naturally"-with blind instinctive no-logic-they hit out. At whom? At Herriot, whose ambitious folly had overturned the Briand Cabinet (TIME, July 26)? Yes. M. Herriot was mobbed, though he escaped. (See "Presidents, Premiers.") But there...
...pound at U. S. cotton markets (Manhattan, New Orleans, Galveston, Mobile, Savannah, Norfolk, Augusta, Memphis, Houston, Little Rock, Dallas, Montgomery, Ft. Worth), that at Liverpool, to which Europe looks, prices are little higher. Then, too, ecto-blasts of monopoly bounders fluttered over the aborning Institute. The manufacturers felt obligated to make a gesture toward the growers. They invited them to Institute membership...
...with a perpetual arpeggio of fine gold bangles, read the effusion with rapidly mounting fury. Then he (Rudolph Valentino) wrote out and mailed to the Chicago Tribune editor a formal note. He said that he infinitely regretted that American statutes made illegal the honorable and historic duello. But he felt happy to be able to offer his correspondent the choice of boxing ring or wrestling mat to "prove in typically American fashion...