Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gibbons, a husky boy who wanted to be champion of the world. Jack Dempsey, the champion, was punching and slashing at Tommy Gibbons. Sweat glistened on the faces of the shirt-sleeved crowd. One man fainted. It was the heat. Another man suddenly had a bleeding nose. Tommy Gibbons felt weak and sick after a while. He lost the fight and made no money. Dempsey got $300,000. Mayor Jim Johnson of Shelby, chief backer, lost $150,000. That was probably Tommy Gibbons most famous fight...
Last week, in Osakis, Minn., Tommy Gibbons gave $50,000 to build a church. He has a summer home at Osakis and felt he ought to do "something worthwhile" for the town. The name of the church that Tommy Gibbons builds will be The Church of the Immaculate Conception...
Toward Wall Street last week the Federal Reserve Board shook a threatening finger, spoke a warning word. With loans to brokers standing at $5,669,000,000, the Board felt that too much money was being absorbed by the stockmarket, that other interests were being forced to pay too much for money they borrow, that indus-try as a whole was suffering from diversion of funds to brokers and speculators. It therefore expressed the opinion that a member of the Federal Reserve Banking System is "not within its reasonable claims for rediscount facilities" when it borrows Federal Reserve money...
...said: "The neck is a clumsy cylinder of flesh . . . there are unnatural plates of flesh . . . faulty construction, faulty anatomy." He pointed to "poor" shadows, an off-perspective eye, awkward drawing. He defined technique as the "handwriting" of an artist whereby a "friend" can always recognize his work. Leonardo, he felt, could never have been a botchy anatomist, nor did the picture reveal his technique...
...thousands who followed the flight of General Nobile and felt the sudden silence of his craft, "The Italia," and traced day by day the rescue effort, knew somehow that there was a Russian boat called an ice-breaker and named "Krassin," which reminded many only of some wild drink, beating her way north among the floes. Perhaps there was in the minds of some a sense of incongruity that a Soviet ship, owned by a government which most people think is the enemy of mankind, should be on a mission of mercy...