Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...withdrawal" of charges against Nominee Smith had been interpreted as a "retraction." No retractor, Editor White cabled his fellow Kansan, Henry Justin Allen, national publicity chief for Hooverism: "On the prostitution issue I proved my case, got a conviction and suspended the sentence. I only did this because I felt that a debate on the subject of harlotry was not worthy of a presidential campaign...
...heavy sales of his 80,000-word cycloramic epic of the Civil War, John Brown's Body (chosen by the Book of the Month Club for August). Said he, "I was not sure that it was a grand poem. I had worked over it for so long I felt I had given birth to a piano...
...slam and bang. And he can sympathize because once he knew the life of active politics himself. In 1922 all was arranged for him to have the Senate seat which Maryland's bumbling Bruce now occupies. Pundit Kent turned it down but only, they say, because he felt he could not afford...
...curl to his lip, Nicolo watched Savonarola hypnotizing the garish Florentine crowds into demure god-fearing citizenry, and the street gamins into veritable "boyscouts of the Lord." He suspected the Friar of charlatanism, perhaps because he tried to rationalize the colorful sermons that so inspired a people who felt, but understood nothing...
Frank T. Courtney, British trans-Atlantic flight aspirant, had enough cause for perturbation; must have felt bedeviled. His 1,500-foot forced dive occurred at about 2:15 a. m., 750 miles northwest of Horta, happy starting point in the Azores. He and his companions waited during 15 minutes of flames for an explosion that never came. Heavy seas extinguished the fire which had gutted the engine room. Heavy seas tossed the Dornier-Napier and its passengers for the next twelve hours. They tried smoke signals which almost re-ignited the craft, sent by radio S. 0. S., false position...