Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...felt life swelling great against locked stones...
...votaries. It would be pleasant to believe that it was being discarded because it was expensive. I am afraid this had nothing to do with it. Some undergraduate must have noticed that young men in business and about town did not go about in such Eskimoish gear. He probably felt it was a bit rah-rah. Then somebody said "collegiate." That ended it, and it began to give way to the more genteel black derby and the chesterfield...
Nothing seems more cruel than the death of a wise and able man at a time when his powers are most flourishing and his advice most needed. The death from pneumonia of Professor Allyn Abbott Young in London on Wednesday is a loss which will be felt by the colleagues with whom he worked, both here and abroad, the pupils whom he had taught, and the University and the nation which he had served...
...Donnelley Corp. (publishers of directories), vice president of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (TIME'S printers); in Chicago. In 1905 Mr. Donnelley was a partner in a stock brokerage firm which went bankrupt. The firm paid 27? on the dollar, was free of debt, legally. But Partner Donnelley felt obligations, morally. Twenty-two years later, he repaid his creditors with interest, a sum of more than...
...part the allowed claims of loyal Irish subjects of His Majesty who had suffered destruction of their property during the Sinn Fein insurrections (1916-20). Should a Loyalist whose mansion had been burned down by mobsmen get a whole new house, or just a cottage? Apparently Mr. Churchill felt that a cottage would be adequate, especially since the saving would help to balance his budget...