Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lexington: "Now as to why I appoint only Negro youths to West Point and Annapolis. The black man has taken part in every war. . . . Until some white Congressman sees fit to recommend a Negro, I feel it my duty to recommend Negroes only, for through me is their only chance of gaining this opportunity...
...tobacco before so many ladies. Pickles, sandwiches, coffee, radishes and ice cream were served. With bows and smiles, blue and purple asters were passed to the ladies who had carried the day for the modern form of municipal government. The outcome of the election made round, gallant Manager Hopkins feel as exhilarated as a small boy who, expecting to fail at school, finds he has passed every thing on his report card...
...reporter?Mr. Lamont said that, although "The City" (financial London) at first strongly backed Chancellor Snowden's demand for £2,000,000 per annum more sponge cake, there was now lively apprehension lest that same demand should wreck the Conference and prevent adoption of the Young Plan. "They feel," said Mr. Lamont, allowing himself to be directly quoted, "that failure to reach some agreement would mean international derangement. They feel it would endanger the gold standard [of Sterling] and would threaten British financial losses far greater than £2,000,000 a year?...
...course this tableau was staged for the benefit of the French press and in hopes of making Chancellor Snowden feel like a Shylock. The second move of the French was to join with Belgium, Italy and Japan in presenting to Shylock Snowden a highly complex "final offer" which they claimed met 80% of his demands. What could be fairer...
...good, of the passing pageant of life." He predicted: "I think that we in America will survive the machine age. Mankind could always stand what would kill a dog. . . . Drink or casual sex experiments will get us nowhere. . . . It would be a proud day for me if I could feel in myself something of the beauty and dignity of the automobile in which I rode to this speaking...