Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lowden hastened to enter his name as a primary candidate, rejoicing that he now had a chance to get nominating votes in his home State, where, while the caucus system prevailed, he was at the mercy of the State Bosses, Mayor Thompson of Chicago and Governor Len Small. Lowdenites felt better about the East, too. Following their still-pond-no-more-moving policy, State Bosses Hilles and Morris of New York made known that any old boom might come to their State and try to get delegates. The small Lowden headquarters in Manhattan closed, but only because the Lowdenites were...
...board chairman of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, know where Continental was buying $1.50 oil? He did. He also knew that the oil would cost him $1.75 from the same source, for reasons beyond his control. Since oil was commanding $2 per barrel elsewhere at the moment, he felt he was serving his Indiana Standard stockholders well in helping to guarantee to Sinclair, as cunningly inevitable middleman, a profit which Indiana Standard could equal in turn. "It was a good buy," he said...
...explained last week to Inquisitor Walsh. Col. Stewart was patient, considering his own full-blooded pique at being peremptorily summoned from business-mixed-with-pleasure in Havana. But patience turned to indignation, blandness boiled into wrath, when Senator Walsh wondered what such an accommodating purchaser might have known or felt or perhaps shared privately from the cunning middleman's profit...
...Weber said, however, that Bostonians were somewhat of an exception to this rule, and that he felt them to be more intellectually inclined towards music than other Americans...
...dress used by the University musicians at present is satisfactory, but that improvement might be made is the conviction felt by a number of the men since the Indiana Band paraded around the Stadium last fall...