Word: feel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lloyd George. "O David of Manchester, reared in Wales . . . your strong point is that you believe everything you utter . . . at least at the moment when it rushes from your lips! . . . War-time is the very element in which men of your type flourish. . . . You feel yourself to be the redeemer of the island-empire. You consider every opponent a villain, and are convinced that no other genius ever produced such ideas as yours...
...other hand, the universities, while realizing that the attempt to drag the incompetent up the academic hill has been a failure, may feel themselves too dependent upon public opinion to shut out this class altogether. If so, they must establish a clear distinction between the competent and the incompetent, and declare them subject to different laws. They can then carry out their real purpose with the first group, raising standards as high as they please without hurting the feelings of the public, and at the same time they can minimize the dissipation of their energies to the second group...
...whit less entertaining. They engaged the same authors and the brilliant George Gershwin for the tunes. Queenie Smith, Andrew Tombes, Allen Kearns and Harry Watson were collected for the principal parts. Considerable cash and no little taste went into scenery and clothing. The net result is 'excellent, but many feel it just a trifle below the astonishingly high standard of the earlier display...
...There is no such thing as proving it [my coming as the world teacher] : you must feel it, you must realize it. ... You may ask how you physically know that such a stupendous individuality, such a di vinity, will be among us. I ask, how do you know when you are in love when you are thrilled with affection? You do not give any explanation, for you feel you cannot give positive proofs. It is the same with me; because I believe in it intensely I am willing to throw up everything. With that belief in the background...
...only a few know, most of the bother and delay in editing and publishing this directory is occasioned not by the college data, as one would naturally suppose, but by the statistics pertaining to the remainder of the University. Those who have previously been responsible for the Register feel that as an organ of the entire University it can never be practical. Professional or amateur publishers, whether competent or incompetent, will never be able to make it a prompt or paying proposition, as long as the Graduate Schools are included in its pages. It is their belief that the Register...