Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty Bars. Mitzkus was lying beside the wreckage. Alvey crawled to him, felt his pulse. He was dead. Alvey crept on around the plane picking up candy bars. He had bought twelve Hershey's and twelve Oh Henrys at Casper and had 20 of them left. He also had three packages of cigarettes, and a cigarette lighter. He built a fire, cut the brown cowboy boot off his swollen ankle, and leaned back to wait for a rescue party...
This latest Hart gem centers about two antagonistic groups: a playwright on the one hand, and a crew of theatrical angels, directors, and actresses on the other. And it would appear that Mr. Hart has felt for too long that 1) playwrights fear to say what they believe with daring and originality, and that 2) theatrical folk are tough and reasonably unscrupulous cutthroats. All this Mr. Hart has now said...
Penicillin is not supposed to work against viruses-but it has been working fine against the common cold, which is often caused by a virus. During the past few months, many cold sufferers who wouldn't know a virus if one sneezed in their faces have felt better after sniffing penicillin dust up their noses from little plastic inhalers...
...young teacher in 1886, Jones had his own vision during a solitary walk in the foothills of the Alps: "I felt the walls grow thin between the visible and the invisible, and there came a sudden flash of eternity, breaking in on me. I kneeled down then and there in that forest glade, in sight of the mountains, and dedicated myself in the hush and silence, but in the presence of an invading life, to the work of interpreting the deeper nature of the soul, and direct mystical relation with God, which had already become my major interest...
Prayers & Freight Rates. In its broad outlines, Remembrance Rock seems the sort of book that U.S. critics have always asked for. It is an attempt to find imaginative meanings and an emotional reality in the sweep of U.S. history, to evoke that "usable past" which critics have felt might be a New World substitute for the age-old traditions and usages of Europe. No one would seem better equipped than Carl Sandburg to write it, both because of his own poetry and the historical knowledge that went into the composition of his life of Lincoln...