Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...madam of a call house and found plenty of prosperity. As business improved she shifted from the tacky Fedora Street neighborhood to plushier headquarters on Hollywood's Sunset Strip, later moved on to swanky Harold Way. Some of Hollywood's shiniest names became her steady customers. Brenda felt so secure that she even took a quarter-page ad in a film directory published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; it was a nice refined ad -just a couple of pictures of her, her name and phone number...
...that they had stirred up. A newsman who visited the colliery towns wrote: "Miners spot a stranger as soon as he comes into town. As you go to the bar the talk quiets and eyes follow you-intelligent, suspicious eyes-summing you up. Nowhere in the world have I felt more like a foreigner." In Newcastle a striking miner working in his garden saw three air force Vampires zooming over, cried to his wife: "Look, they're going to bomb Federation House...
...Things That Breathe. Albert felt a sense of deep obligation to those who were not as well off as he. One day, when he won a friendly wrestling match with a bigger schoolmate, the loser complained: "Yes, if I got broth to eat twice a week the way you do, I'd be as strong as you are." From that time on, Albert's broth stuck in his throat. He was punished repeatedly because he refused to accept such advantages as an everyday overcoat, new gloves, or leather shoes, which poorer boys did not have...
...first philosophical book, The Religious Philosophy of Kant, was published, while he was working for his licentiate in theology. At the same time, he became a preacher in Strasbourg's Church of St. Nicholas. "Preaching was a necessity of my being," he wrote in his autobiography.-"I felt it as something wonderful that I was allowed to address a congregation every Sunday about the deepest questions of life." In 1902 he was made a curate of the church...
...Rightist, but he soon broke with Rightist President Syngman Rhee. Kim made a bitter fight against establishment of the U.S.-sponsored South Korean Republic, which he felt would permanently divide his homeland...