Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Calvin Coolidge retired from the Presidency because he felt that no man could, in that office, give the people the best service for longer than eight years. He had been told that the Kansas City nomination was his for the taking. He felt that his re-election was "assured." Yet, obedient to a desire to get back to the people, he said, "I-do-not-choose-to-run" in South Dakota and followed that up by despatching his secretary to the Republican National Convention to tell the leaders of unpledged State delegations not to vote...
...take no part in the primary campaigns. He found no reason for his participation for "the party had plenty of [presidential] material . . . and the candidate should really be the choice of the people themselves." He admitted that a President could nominate his successor, but such a nomination, he felt, would often prove a handicap to the nominee...
...keen readers of both stories last week were inclined to give Author Coolidge credit for fitting his prose to his medium. For Cosmopolitan readers the Coolidge pen had raced intimately. For Ladies' Home Journal readers it had dealt ponderously with peace, defense, good gov- ernment. Publisher Curtis might have felt last week that he, like William Randolph Hearst, had gotten just what he wanted for his readers...
...Baudelaire, the tormented Catholic Satanist, sometimes achieved in poetry grandeur that: was Wagnerian. In French literature his niche will eventually be tha of his kinspirit Poe in English. Once Baudelaire wrote "Yesterday I felt the wing of imbecility brush me." It was also perhaps the tip of the wing of greatness...
Newspaper cartoonists for a decade have clothed the college undergraduate in raccoon-skin coat, baggy trousers, battered and blighted felt hat. Such were the sacerdotal vestments of the initiate "collegian." But last week, Princeton's witty and learned Dean Christian Gauss hailed the passing of the coonskin. Said he: "Undergraduates who wear coonskin coats now are not nearly so jaunty about it as they used to be; they are quite properly a little shamefaced. Their Eskimoish enduements are relics of the past age of 'collegiatism.' Students now wear them for lack of polo coats or Chesterfields...