Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beersheba, the musicians played a program of Mozart, Beethoven and Gershwin to 1,000 soldiers who overflowed the benches, squatted in the sand, or sat on the flat roofs of surrounding Arab houses. Conducting while played the piano sitting on a chair balanced on piles of flat rocks, Bernstein felt the chair slipping away from him, rose to a half-stance, and continued to play the Rhapsody in Blue while the first violinist propped the chair up again...
...Fred Lazarus Jr., president of the Federated Department Stores, Inc., thought the trouble was something more than that. His chain had just increased its profit 27%-on a sales increase of only 13.6%-to a record of $12 million for the year ended in October. But, like others, Federated felt the November slump. Said Lazarus: "The market has become a buyers' market. The day of honest-to-goodness merchandising is back...
...that the cost of materials had fallen but manufacturers and wholesalers, loaded with goods made at higher costs, were still trying to get the old prices. Retailers wanted new stock at prices reflecting present costs. To move old stock they were trimming price tags to that level. Nevertheless, Lazarus felt that price cuts and better quality goods would boost December sales enough to take up November's slack, and more...
...over to a new trademark. In that time, said Plomb, its markets and most of its skilled help would be gone. In addition, the company estimated that it would have to pay $500,000 in profits to Plumb and $40,000 in costs, a loss that would be sorely felt. It looked as if tool buyers might never again be confused over Plomb & Plumb...
...transplant successfully any play from its original setting to modern times seems go demand that it have either a plot of some universal theme or else a pertinent parallel to the present. The Idler Players obviously felt the latter to be true, which may be so. Counterparts of Mr. Congreve's people certainly do exist today, but the people on the stage at Agassiz are confused and confusing hybrids, standing with one leg in the Seventeenth and one in the Twentieth Century...