Word: felted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...retired Westchester County, N.Y., high school principal wrote to F. D. Pratt in response to a letter she had received from him as TIME'S circulation director, asking whether by any chance he was the Francis DeWitt Pratt she had taught in third grade in Schenectady, N.Y. She felt there was something vaguely familiar about his handwriting...
...silence-then the defendants, their wives, attorneys and friends in the crowd stood up in a shouting, back-slapping bedlam. Cried Roosevelt Carlos Kurd Sr., who had been identified by nine defendants as the man who shot out Willie Earle's brains: "I feel the best I ever felt in my life. I got justice." Defendant Hendrix Rector bragged: "I'm gonna get drunk for a month and then run for sheriff...
...leading the offensive of U.S. capital against Brazil." The facts: peripatetic Bill Pawley had been sunning himself in Miami at the time the Electoral Tribunal made up its mind on the Commies; the U.S. Embassy had maintained a scrupulous hands-off attitude toward the Government move; privately, Embassy officials felt there were better ways of fighting Communism than those employed by Dutra. If the Brazilian Army had drawn any conclusions from U.S. foreign policy-i.e., Truman's aid to Greece and Turkey-the deductions were not inspired...
George Drew was doing his best. He kept telling the British that it is wiser to send their people to a country that can produce food which Britain urgently needs than to keep them home. At week's end, he felt there was "a fair chance" of getting 5,000 Britons to Ontario in time for the fall harvest...
...cutter and codirector. The three got along so well together that in 1942 they decided to form their own production unit, Cineguild. On Coward's suggestion they next adapted This Happy Breed, writing their own screenplay with occasional help from Coward. After doing Blithe Spirit, they felt sure enough of themselves to go on their...