Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After all, jazz is the only genuine contribution to contemporary music that America can boast of. Our jazz masters are the world's finest, which is more than I can say for our "serious" composers. Bebop is a tremendous thing-it must be heard with the brain and felt with the soul; it packs as much emotional intensity as any symphony...
...Wind that Blew . . . The President, however, acted exactly as if he were setting out on a triumph. "If I felt any better," he told reporters at Washington's Union Station, "I couldn't stand it." He seemed to be certain that he was embarking on a sort of political Sheridan's Ride, and that his straggling troops would wheel, cheer, and rally behind him as he crossed the continent. As he began making the first of many off-the-cuff, rear-platform speeches, he announced again and again and again, that he was certain to be reelected...
Clarified Issue. More than dollars & cents were at stake. As most of the U.S. publishers doing business overseas were in the red, partly because of the blocked and inflated currencies, few of them felt that they could 1) indefinitely carry the financial burden of telling the U.S. story abroad or 2) expand their foreign editions, as the Government would like them...
...Connell Street there lived a highbrow little monthly called the Bell. Between its covers, budding young Irish writers appeared arm in arm with such full-blown names as George Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey and Liam O'Flaherty. The big names worked for small pay; they felt it a duty to support Eire's only literary magazine...
Pennsylvania's coach, Rusty Callow, calls them the second best crew he has ever seen. Reading from stern to bow: SAM MANTEL, cox; BILL CURWEN, stroke; PAUL KNAPLUND (captain), 7; FRANK STRONG, 6; JUD GALE, 5; DICK EMMET, 4; TED REYNOLDS, 3; DON FELT, 2; MIKE SCULLY...