Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week walked a Chicago lawyer. In his ears was the blare of the Marine band; before him, a large U-shaped table covered with green cloth; about him, diplomats in formal attire', trim state department ushers, military and naval aides, personages of great official importance. As a civilian he felt a little lost until he caught sight of his good friend Senator Borah sitting up near the head of the U-table. And there, too, were Calvin Coolidge, Frank Billings Kellogg. The Chicago lawyer watched President Hoover, looking hot in a cutaway, shake hands with other people coming through...
...accept or reject the tycoons' advice. Last week, after a month of spirited bickering among European chancellories, it was decided to hold a "Political Reparations Conference" in mid-August at The Hague. The immaculate, aristocratic capital of Queen Wilhelmina's tidy Netherlands would provide, it was felt, an ideally placid atmosphere. Brussels, although favored in London and Paris as the seat for the conference, was ruled out after strenuous protests were received from Berlin. The Germans claimed that Belgium is "still surcharged with war hatred...
...Young Report is such an incredible report," said Mr. Lloyd George addressing Parliament, "that I felt I must have missed something when I first read it. I read it a second and a third time, and was confirmed in my feeling of amazement that it should ever have been presented to the British Treasury as a fair settlement of British claims...
...ostentatiously left vacant by Viscount St. Davids. As the room quieted to a deadly hush, Baron Kylsant glanced sharply at the vacant chair, frowned, then swept the room with penetrating gaze until his eyes met those of Viscount St. Davids. Tycoon glared at tycoon, brother at brother. The seconds felt like hours. Then Baron Kylsant nodded sharply, pointed imperatively to the empty chair. Neither brother spoke. They are not on speaking terms. But Tycoon Kylsant's victory seemed perfect and complete when Tycoon St. Davids rose abruptly, crossed to the Directors' table, shook hands with His Grace...
...being called only "STIMMING." Even the German Who's Who does not seem to know that the great little Prussian's parents used to refer to him as "Karl." Last week as he stood in the enormous shadow of the Bremen, the General Director must have felt as proud as a flea that had whelped a whale. Too modest and certainly too wise to boast, STIMMING compressed his exultation into three sentences that spoke volumes, "Mein herren" he said in his always calm low voice to correspondents. "Gentlemen, every one likes to talk in periods of decades...