Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second floor will be devoted to the general use of the University in an effort to relieve in some degree the pressure for class room space that is being felt in increasing measure in the University offices. The present class room space is entirely inadequate as has been previously pointed out in various reports from the University offices and the new found space will serve in a slight degree to fill the temporary breach...
Hats. The felt hat, as everyone knows, is made from rabbit fur. According to ancient Chinese legend, the discovery of the felt hat resulted from the aching feet of a tired Chinaman. This Chinaman, rabbit hunting, had caught several rabbits...
...this experience resulted in felt hats rather than in felt shoes, legend does not relate, but it is undeniably true that the raw material for felt hats is the little animal with the long ears and the reputation for timidity and fertility. The straw hat lacks a romantic legendary origin, but includes in its ranks probably the world's most expensive hat-the Panama-handwoven from fibres of palm leaves in Ecuador and priced up to $500. Knox sells about a half dozen a year of the $500 variety...
...secret process by which Hatter Dunlap succeeded in turning out the blackest derbies ever known, the Dunlap hat eventually outsold the Knox in Manhattan. For many a year small hat-makers held up their spring lines until they could see and imitate the Dunlap derby and the Knox felt. As for Knox-Dunlap competition, both the Knox and the Dunlap businesses declined with the age and retirement of their two leaders and soon after the present Knox management had rehabilitated the Knox company it absorbed the Dunlap also...
Calmer alumni pointed to Girard trustees like Lawyer Owen Josephus Roberts, whom President Coolidge chose as special Federal prosecutor in the Oil Scandals (TIME, Feb. 25, 1924), and William H. Kingsley, a Girard alumnus. They felt sure that trustees like these would keep intact the Girard endowment, even supposing that Senator-suspect Vare might be covetous, which seemed to them impractical if not incredible...