Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite all these comforts, the Rana, glumly watching the program of dancing and drumbeating, looked rather like a man who would have felt more at home in a 52nd Street nightclub. At one point he abruptly walked out on a hill woman who was trying to entertain him with a peasant love song, and stood moodily under a pine tree, twirling his waxed mustache until she was removed...
Young Tories, who had long sought a faith to replace Britons' lost belief in small c conservatism (TIME, April 21), perked up in confidence. Now that there was pink in the Right, they felt right in the pink for campaigning...
After a postwar trip to Europe, the Rose felt like "running in a new direction." But he took the first steps quite by accident. He began writing a series of newspaper ads for his Diamond Horseshoe: "Miscellaneous notions on Life, Art, Reforestation, and Sex among the Aborigines." The ads were written with such sprightly zeal that all Broadway was soon babbling about them. The newspaper PM began printing them as a regular column. That was all the encouragement Billy needed. He raced off in all directions asking editors if they wouldn't like to run his column free...
Through tears that just welled up and kept coming, she tried to explain at the banquet how she felt about her popularity...
Spare the Whip. Richards knew his highstrung mount, and, because he did, the Minstrel had never felt his whip, and never would. Says Tudor Minstrel's head stable man: "If you whipped him it would make him nervous. It would be like whipping a good dog; he would wonder why you did it." The last time he raced, in the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket a month ago, he pulled away from 14 other prize three-year-olds and won by eight lengths, only a fifth of a second off the mile record (1:37⅓) that has stood...