Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Huey's schools and Huey's friends & enemies are everywhere that Earl goes. Earl works in Huey's 34-story skyscraper capitol and lives in Huey's governor's mansion-an imitation White House which the Kingfish erected in Baton Rouge so he would "feel at home" when he became President. Back-parish voters eye Earl beadily to see that he acts "like Huey would have wanted...
Deep down inside, the Californians did not feel that they needed the U.S. on their side in the Olympic games. They had a bumper crop of their own athletes. At Henley-on-Thames last week, the University of California's smooth eight-oared crew got off to a slow start, but never had to raise the beat too high. The coxswain simply called for a "big ten" (increasing the effort, but not the beat, for ten strokes) and Cal smoothly spurted into the lead. California won easily over Great Britain's Leander Boat Club and Norway...
...When I have a song to sing," says Betty Grable, by way of explaining her success as a movie star, "I feel good singing it. I don't think, 'Gee! I'm the greatest singer.' " Neither does Miss Grable think, gee! she is a great actress: "I just say and do the things I do every day of my life. Gosh, it could be me up there on the screen...
...flock to Betty's pictures with an ardent persistence they have never offered to other stars of greater beauty and larger gifts? Betty Grable, long-shanked, blue-eyed, 5 ft. 3½ in., no pounds, knows one answer. "Girls," she says, "can see me in a picture and feel I could be one of them." A wag with a parody spoke for the male audience when he sang, with no perceptible rancor toward Betty's bandleader husband...
...effective. As for the rediscount rise, its effect would only be psychological. Borrowings by member banks from the Federal Reserve Banks are relatively insignificant, at less than $300 million. With excess reserves of over $1 billion, member banks were not likely to raise the volume by much, nor feel any actual pinch because of the higher charges...