Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bolshevik in Dinner Jacket. Rival principles, like rival callers, have walked in & out of Spaak's life at top speed. He was born (1899) of a notable and nonconformist Belgian family who felt, in the words of a friend, that they were born to lead Belgium. His maternal grandfather, Paul Janson, and his uncle, Paul Emile Janson, were great Liberal leaders; his father was a well-known playwright; his mother, a Socialist, was the first woman to sit in Belgium's Parliament. At 75, white-haired, good-humored Senator Spaak listens proudly to the speeches...
...Play a Bad Card . . ." "I felt I had something to do in politics," says Spaak of this period, "but all the doors were closed." In 1935, a door opened. Premier Paul van Zeeland asked him to enter the Cabinet as Minister of Transport, Posts & Telegraphs. Spaak accepted. Then, excitedly, he telephoned his mother: "Maman, if your telephone breaks down, complain directly to me. I'm the new Communications Minister." The next year he became Foreign Minister...
...poets and songwriters have always felt it. The doctors knew it too, but have just got around to proving it with scientific gadgetry. Emotional people who claim that "my heart skipped a beat," or "my heart stood still" are probably stating a literal fact. Last week Dr. Ian P. Stevenson of New York Hospital (and his associates) proved it by tracing the heart's action electrically on an electrocardiograph...
More than 70 Radcliffe athletes, already notified at field day exercises that they have won Athletic Association awards, will pick up their cherry felt embolms at the 'Cliffe gymnasium office next week. The insignia failed to show up in time for presentation Tuesday...
Despite the tactical blunders of the author, though, the book merits reading. The story of the hearings is frightening in its connotations and its consequences are begin felt adversely in every movie coming out of Hollywood today. It is obvious from its own records that the committee went into the hearings with the verdict already a certainty. Thomas let the "friendly" witnesses have free rein, permitting them to make all kinds of accusations and vilifications under the cloak of immunity. No one that fell under these torrents of abuse was allowed to defend himself in any way or to cross...