Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman got off the rope and I slid down it. It must have been a 12-ft. drop and the lifeboat was jumping to the swell. But my arms felt strong and I landed right in the middle and scrambled to the side...
...know one is supposed to feel pretty grim perched precariously on a raft in the middle of the Atlantic, but I didn't. I have seldom felt better. I suppose the realisation that one wasn't dead was such an inexpressible relief that anything else seemed trivial by comparison. I felt rather like one does on coming to after laughing gas; I had the giggles...
...result of this and other stories, most musicians felt that the play might be a success, but that it would be a commercial and not an artistic one. They felt that the book was undergoing typical Broadway treatment and being completely slaughtered in the process--the casting of Hawkins being an example...
...Hawkins story is just another example of press agentry; Hawkins had been considered casually and that's all. No contracts had been signed for him, and at the time I talked to him Mr. Freedley was trying to get Louis Armstrong; If Louis wanted too much and it was felt his voice wasn't good enough, he was going to listen to Taft Jorden (Ella Fitzgerald's band) who would have been swell for the part...