Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wore long white kid gloves, bangs, and white dresses with pink and blue sashes. The opera was a polite and serious affair. In subsequent years, in going to the opera we have always felt it to be something of a rite, and it was with a feeling akin to guilt, even in later years, that either my sister or myself entered the refreshment room for a discreet cup of coffee...
Despite the $43,000 the U.S. would pay in annual rental, many another Panamanian felt as Alfaro did. When students at the National University and High School heard of the signing, they went on a paro doloroso (strike of sorrow). Next day, primed by pep talks from anti-Yankee professors, they were out for trouble. Armed with sticks, stones and one red flag, they headed for Panama City's Plaza Santa Ana to organize a "popular protest," and hoped to get the National Assembly to hold up the agreement. Halfway down the Avenida Central, police met them with tear...
Whispers from Below. A good many proprietors of London's predominantly Tory press have felt that the Socialist government is gunning for them, taking away newsprint so they'll have less space to criticize Labor. The proprietors have also heard the whisper of mutiny from below. It was the National Union of Journalists that started the parliamentary ball rolling for a Royal Commission to investigate whether Britain's press is monopolistic. Now that the commission has settled down to work, the press isn't so alarmed. Oxford's Sir William David Ross, the chairman...
...came "the catastrophe of success"-Broadway's delight over The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams (a name he had substituted for his real one, Thomas Lanier Williams, which "sounded too much like William Lyon Phelps") suddenly felt like "a sword cutting daisies" and hurried off to Mexico to work toward his high theatrical goal: "Great theater," says he, "is the highest and purest form of religion...
Citizens of their time, they lived in a nation that had both prosperity and peace, but enjoyed neither. If others felt bewilderment and despair, was it strange that the writers did too, and showed it not only in what they wrote, but in what they proved incapable of writing? Most writers were unable to see life whole, and unsatisfied with illumining only fragments of it. Even the humorists, who were few, wrote as if they had solemnly resolved: humor must and shall be preserved...