Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it was over, Tallulah kept Sharland on for two hours while she delivered the speech she later made for President Truman. Says Photographer Sharland: "She was very nice, very sweet, and very cooperative." Bernstein and Miss Sulzberger felt the same way about Tallulah and told her so when, at one point in their interview, she stopped suddenly and asked: "Do you all like...
Never had labor worn such an air of confident authority. For two years, it had felt like a man shouting into a dead mike. Last week, with the power full on, labor listened with vast satisfaction as its voice rolled across the land and echoed in the corridors of the White House itself...
...cities, the prestige of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had sunk lower than the Yangtze. An American traveler in Shanghai wrote home: "His name is mud in all classes-they feel toward him as Americans felt toward Herbert Hoover in 1933." The U.S. Embassy was evacuating Americans as fast as it could. In the U.S. itself headlines flared the black news. China-and what to do about it-was Page One; Asia's howitzers could now be heard in Kansas City, although the U.S. still had only a very partial notion of how big its stake was in the China...
Chinese respected the Gimo's indomitable will, his stubborn national pride, but they had a sharp sense, that he-and they -had failed. One measure of that failure, some of them felt, was the performance of Chiang's own Whampoa Academy generals. Said one Chinese bitterly last week: "They are old and tired; in 20 years they have passed from the sunrise to the sunset." Some had turned carpetbagger. In one instance, soldiers defending Mukden watched a planeload of payday currency signed over to an army general and flown back to his bank in Shanghai. The government...
...lectured at the school before, every child had seemed a model of behavior. That behavior, he concluded, was the result of a chastening caning now & then. So Eric Wildman, who manufactures whipping canes and recently organized Britain's Society for the Retention of Corporal Punishment, had felt very much at home at Horsley Hall...