Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last night boat gave up. Last week, the Manhattan press broke into a wail of nostalgia as the passing of the Day Line was announced. New York's cave dwellers felt a twinge of regret too-until they tried to remember when they had last ridden on a Day Line boat. It had been quite a while...
Thunder. The trouble began last spring when players, brooding over past grievances, organized a union; some felt underpaid, all were exasperated by the rules which allow clubs to sell or trade players at will. Wealthy clubs had taken to buying up promising hooters, not to play but to sit idle on the bench. A fortnight ago, the players put on a token strike. At exactly 3:45 p.m., in every stadium in Argentina, all players abruptly stood stock-still for one minute, then went on with the game...
...William Rothenstein, president of London's Royal College of Arts, felt justified in feeling peeved that day in 1923: his star pupil was deserting him. Young Uday Shankar, who had come all the way from India to study painting, was about to join Anna Pavlova's ballet troupe. "Please, persuade Mme. Pavlova not to do this," Sir William begged a friend. Replied Pavlova: "Please tell Sir William that Shankar is a born dancer. He must dance. Oh, he must dance...
Many a professional specialist had begun to wonder whether the Dow theory, a useful barometer in less stormy times, had not outlived its usefulness. Nowadays the market is subject to more unpredictable political and economic pressures and plain frights than it felt in the years when the theory was being worked out and "proved." For example, only a month after the theory signaled a bull market in May, the Berlin blockade sent prices skittering down again, although business got better & better...
...steps of the greatest college library in the world proved to be a perfect sounding-board for the music of the band and the cheers of the crowd, and, thanks to a temporary microphone system, even the speeches were audible. Head Coach Art Valpey spoke first, and while he "felt it would be inhospitable to say much about tomorrow's game," he assured the crowd that "they could be proud of the team...