Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vera, Countess Cathcart, wearing a green felt hat, faced a judge of the U. S. District Court last week in Manhattan. She was appealing for a writ of habeas corpus to release her from the clutches of U. S. immigration officials...
...Heard from the lips of Mr. Arthur M. Samuel, Secretary for the Overseas Trade Department, that the British Government has felt compelled to decline an invitation to exhibit at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition, on the grounds of imperative national economy...
...George discovered that most of the typewriters used by the British Government are of U. S. manufacture (TIME, March 1), continued to be heard last week. It was revealed that the Prince of Wales possesses six U. S.-made "portables"; and yet both he and the Duke of York felt called upon to speak publicly in praise of British-made machines...
...Norseman, in view of similar experiences, that dirigibles are safer. Amundsen is going this year in the Italian-built dirigible Norge, which spent the fortnight undergoing tests at Rome. As he left the U. S. last week, Amundsen gave the airplanes one chance of success in 1,500; felt his one chance was 100% good on a 50-hour dirigible flight...
...Mackay of Toronto urged the teaching of Christianity in the schools as a preventive of lawlessness, domestic infelicity and other social unrest. Dr. George Warren Richards of Lancaster, Pa., read the rules for the merger. All except Dr. George Summey of New Orleans agreed. He dissented because he felt that the benefits of the union were not clear, as the General Council was only an executive body while the Alliance was the Church itself. Proponents pointed out that the union will bring economies and efficiency...