Word: feel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will you please cancel my subscription to TIME on its expiration. I am disappointed in what promised to be a very entertaining and educational publication. I feel that your reference to notables is at times impertinent and your liberty with diction runs into excesses. I also do not like the red border and feel that I would much rather have the Literary Digest as it covers the subjects covered by TIME in a dignified manner and withal fills my wants...
...printed several letters commending your review of Elmer Gantry [TIME, March 28]. May I say a word on the other side ? My friend, Hillis L. Remington, says the critique was clever. I agree with him. Clever, yes, but that's all. I am a TIME enthusiast, but I feel that your review of Mr. Lewis' book was, consciously or unconsciously, bigoted. I speak for my friend, who reads TIME every week at the Meriden (Conn.) Y. M. C. A., as well as for myself...
...long as you continue to please the average reader and your subscription lists hold up you may feel that you have one of the best Weeklies. You may consider me a Perpetual rather than an Original subscriber so long as you continue to play the game along the lines you have started. May I be permitted to say that it is an unusual person or publication who is willing to show the rest of us the slaps received from some and who is always willing to admit the mistake when one occurs. THOS. PHILLIPS...
...doctrine that the white man is superior to the black, accepts Nordic standards, regrets his dusky hue, shapes his life toward proving that his soul, at least, is white or near-white. More radical Negroes, notably the younger school of Negro writers, resent the assumption of white superiority, feel that black culture is different from but on an equal plane with white, maintain that the future of the colored race lies in its proudly being as black as it is painted...
...Austen, cool, said: "I do not feel it my duty as apparently the Honorable Member does, to doubt the word of British representatives in China." Up and down England the fact was apparent that British news from China is becoming a medium for political manipulation and strife...