Word: feel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Europe we have a tremendous body of problems, that legacy of the ages. You are free of that, and it is difficult for you perhaps to get our point of view on these things. The damage of what was has been so great that sometimes I feel that we can never get out of the fog; but here there is new hope and new confidence. Everybody is young and looks at the world through the eyes of youth...
...began at 2:15 a.m. when King Ferdinand I, 61, died at the Castelui Palace, in the arms of Queen Marie. "I feel so tired," said Ferdinand, "so tired. . . and yet I feel no pain." Thus six years of acute suffering from a cancerous growth were ended, at last, for His Majesty Ferdinand Victor Albert Mainrad von Hohen-zollern-Sigmaringen, King of Rumania, and successor to the Tsars of Russia as Defender of the Holy Sepulchre...
Walk along the ground with a breeze at your back, approach a fence, bend your knees, spring lightly into the air when you feel the tug of the balloon. You will sail over the fence so easily and land so gently that you will be surprised. Barns and trees can be surmounted with more vigorous leaps, usually requiring a light second push-up with the tip of the toe on the barn's roof or on the tree's outlying branches...
...enemy. Coast dwellers frown when the grey banks drift in and smother the buoys. At sea the slowed ships feel their way; the sirens mourn incessantly. Voices are lowered in a fog, which muffles them yet lower as though it shrouded something grave about to happen. Fog, several hours of it, gets on men's nerves. Two thousand miles of groping through fog might drive two men in an airplane-a land airplane over an ocean-close to distraction. So thought radio operators listening last week to the day-and- nightlong flashes of Ernest L. Smith, civilian pilot...
...characterized by a gigantic and exaggerated gusto. At dinner with George Sand "three bottles had been emptied. He pointed to them: 'We are not drinking!' After they had consumed six dozen oysters, he pointed to the shells: 'What's wrong with you all tonight? Does nobody feel hungry...