Word: feel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...businessmen. Being, especially in the lower ranks, a provincially Manhattan lot, they seemed to think the Stockmarket would be disgraced if Business did not humbly follow its lead. Outside of lower Manhattan, Detroit was the gloomiest spot, the depths being reached by the jocular motor executive who seemed to feel that never again would any U. S. citizen be able to buy anything except a Ford. Following are three typical "results" variously predicted...
...This picture, which started as a death mask to Beethoven, includes among other attractive features, a young lady standing on her head along with some very fine draperies. And now the wrong has been righted, and the artist has the prize money. The only criticism is that some might feel that the judges of this exhibition were not quite on the square...
...Bible has come to be regarded, not as the traditional basis of all religious belief, but as the literature of a long religious development. If, we do not feel concerned about miracles today, it is because we have learned to see the spiritual meaning of life not in physical marvels but in the achievement of moral values and religious devotion to the best that we know. The modern student is finding no conflict between his scientific thinking and his religious appreciation...
...feel certain," he said, "that this Harvard team has one great game in its system, and it wouldn't surprise me to find that it can rise twice to the heights. If it has only one really great game, I hope that it will come against Yale, but you can rest assured that the line and the backs will do a fine job against Michigan...
...Marquis is an ex-colyumist who has taken to writing "seriously." But he is still enough of the colyumist to feel that he should sugar the pill. In this book of short stories, the grim alternates with the comic strip, the eerie with the whimsical. Among the exhibits: a strong silent farmer overhears the hired man seducing his wife; Tim O'Meara tells his sons how his great diplomatic ancestor tickled the fancies of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary; the Old Soak exudes a tale of spiritual wickedness and liquor in high places; the powerful Katinka in a circus...