Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hash-joints, missions and flophouses that Chicago calls Skid Row. One morning last June, as he picked his way to work through Skid Row's reeking garbage and broken bottles, and stepped past the bodies of sleeping derelicts on the sidewalks, Daily News Managing Editor Everett C. Norlander felt his stomach turn over. His next reaction was that he was walking through a good story. When he got to his office, he called in two young rewrite men and asked: "How would you like to be bums for a while?" What Norlander wanted was an inside story of Skid...
...embossed holsters at $15, fringed and decorated leather chaps at $12, and even cowboy pajamas for $2.98. To have a well-dressed cowboy in the home, parents can plunk out as much as $83.40 for a single outfit. For another $42.50, they can buy a gabardine shirt, trousers and felt hat for a cowgirl. Even at those prices, retailers have found little buyers' resistance...
...Window. Razor-edged suspense and terror as felt through the pulse of a tenement kid; with Bobby Driscoll (TIME...
...Hollywood, Elizabeth has refused to let a little thing like a continent come between them. She writes Bill every day and has little long-distance chats with him almost as often. Cost of one recent call: $145. At first they vowed to have no other dates, but Elizabeth felt like such a wallflower at one of Cobina Wright's parties she had that rule made a little more flexible...
...kiss the first? Had Madge encouraged it, had she smiled back at the man? A muddled rush of feeling seized him: pity for himself as a rejected husband, envy of the stranger's virile appearance, guilt that he had failed to step up and challenge the fellow. Bishop felt even more confused when the stranger bounced over to introduce himself as the new neighbor, Charles Diver. The man invited them to dinner, and Madge, who had come downstairs, cheerfully said...