Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toothache. In Durango, Colo., Mrs. W. J. Wellman, an automobile accident victim, went home from the hospital, felt a pain in her hand a few days later, consulted the doctor, who fixed things by extracting one of her missing teeth from her thumb...
...reminded of the "prodigious religiousness" of 19th Century Britain: "All that business and efficiency in organizing religious services and activities, served, I am sure, as a cushion against the hard impact of the living God. Our churches were like comfortable and well managed religious clubs, in which we felt nicely at home, in which we felt good, in which we even wanted to be better, at least on Sunday evenings when singing particularly lush hymns...
...Charlie Chaplin played him in Modern Times, turned screws with both hands and tightened bolts until he could hardly tell himself from a machine. In General Motors Corp.'s huge, sprawling plants, nobody works that hard. But many a G.M. employee, like mass-production workers everywhere, has long felt that his identity is lost in the vast impersonality of the machines...
...time the 5,145 prizes were awarded last week, G.M. felt that it had got its money's worth. The contest had proved a smart publicity stunt. It had also given G.M. a closer appreciation than ever before of two basic emotions of good factory workers: a strong pride in their work, a deep love of precision machines. By giving those feelings a stronger, more individualistic outlet, G.M. felt, it could take some of the curse of monotony out of mass production...
Died. Meredith Nicholson, 81, last survivor of Indiana's literary Golden Age (his late contemporaries: James Whitcomb Riley, George Ade, Booth Tarking-ton), writer of once popular novels (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men); in Indianapolis. Romancer Nicholson, who felt that "you have got to get some brains into public office," turned from literature to politics, practiced what he preached as Indianapolis city councilman, diplomat (U.S Minister to Paraguay, Venezuela, Nicaragua...