Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paced his room in San Francisco's Hotel Stewart last week, Isaac Garrett Fox neither looked nor felt like a desperado. He was 53-a sallow, nervous man who wore eyeglasses and false teeth, and was growing bald. He had served eight years (1931-39) in Tennessee for bank robbery, and the thought of prison terrified him. But he was sick, out of work, and three weeks behind in his rent. That helped him make up his mind...
...Bulldog. But his fears got the better of him. The bank's alarm began to ring just as he left; before he had driven a mile, he felt that he was being surrounded. He turned off into a side street. It came to a dead end. He stopped the car, got out, leaped over a fence and started across lots, carrying the canvas moneybag. A bulldog-a creaky, cross 13-year-old dog named Buggs-ran out toward him, growling. Fox lost his head completely. He kicked viciously at the dog's head. Then he ran in panic...
...people any longer felt that such boyish fervor would quite do as good "war poetry." So, between wars, Brooke and his little sheaf of verses remained objects of piety rather than admiration...
...already tangled up in the Alice-in-Wonderland economics of the support program in another farm product: after spending $40 million to support potato prices last year, the department asked farmers not to increase their potato acreage this year. But farmers increased production with better fertilizers, insecticides, irrigation. They felt sure the high support prices would go even higher. By last week the Government had already paid out $17 million for surplus potatoes-and the bulk of the crop is yet to come...
...angles on great old subjects by no means necessarily improve a movie. Still, it would have been interesting to know, in a little more detail, just why these Southerners felt so contrary; what their neighbors thought of them (and vice versa); what their relations were with the Yankees ; and how they managed to survive as long as they did. However, all such questions are swamped in slick-fiction formula. A fiery redhead (Susan Hayward) gets crippled for no good reason and for no good reason gets fixed up again. Her fiance, the swine mentioned above, runs off with her sister...