Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While I was in college I was torn two ways about my work on the CRIMSON. While I was utterly absorbed in it I still felt that it took time which might have gone into more academic work. Nevertheless, the CRIMSON experience was educational in every sense of the word, including the vocational. My work on the CRIMSON led me directly into newspaper work and after the usual five year interruption I became a publisher of a medium size newspaper which I started along with some other people. Probably I would not have had the conceit to take this step...
...falling into a disrepute which reminds one of the U.S. during Prohibition," wrote one independent M.P. to the London Times. The regional petroleum office in the Midlands reported a religious revival, with thousands wanting gas to drive to churches more than two miles from their homes. Many a motorist felt new pangs of rheumatism, sciatica, or old war wounds which made it quite impossible for him to walk to the nearest...
Charles Chaplin felt the pinch of inflation. A Los Angeles court took notice of the cost-of-living increase, ordered him to pay an extra $25 a week for the support of Carol Ann, his four-year-old daughter by ex-protégée Joan Berry. That meant $100 every week, instead...
Readers are not much help as critics, said Editor Pope, who felt that most casual comment on the press is ignorant and irrelevant. But, he said, "someone is going to pioneer in the new art-science of measuring and revealing the box score of the press, and I suspect it will be a uni versity. . . ." He hoped it would be a number of universities...
...exporters felt like a party guest who had been given a Mickey Finn and kicked down the stairs...