Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outlander like most New Yorkers (he hailed from Texas), Walker had lived in Manhattan for 20 years, worked most of that time on the Herald Tribune. He loved New York, felt ill at ease in Philadelphia. But his job on the Ledger was welcome. For ever since he had left the Herald Tribune in 1935 to become managing editor of the Mirror, Stanley Walker had been moving about, going mostly down, not up. After six months on the Mirror he had shifted to the American (now defunct), then to The New Yorker, then to the New York Woman (also defunct...
Pasty-faced witnesses began filing into the bare, dead-white death chamber. The doomed man, flanked by guards, came last, shuffled calmly toward the electric chair. Elliott fastened the head electrode in place, felt the doomed murderer shudder, joined Davis at the switch ten feet away. His head pounded. The prison physician waved his hand. "Now," whispered Davis...
Last week there appeared in this column a few paragraphs which might well be entitled "How to Get Stuck Up the Well-Known Creek Without a Paddle." Subject under discussion was a new Benny Goodman record, which I felt and still feel to be the best swing he has ever done. Record was described at great length, mentioning all the solos and going into ecstatic rhapsodies about the ensemblework. The only trouble was than I just plain forgot to say what the name of the record...
...ready chuckle. The spring in his step and a military posture belied his age by at least a score of years. His desk was forever a chaos of books and manuscripts and photos, but somehow the magazine came out. He would wear a brown felt hat turned up at the brim, and a dark coat...
...time Ogden wrung his way free of this world, he felt he owed no one either gratitude or affection. "I always had given far more than I had received; if there was any debt, it was due to me." The morning he left home, forever, nobody was awake. He did not bother to wake them...