Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact, Senator J. Howard McGrath, Democratic National Chairman, was wrathful. "This device will fool no one," he said. Harry Truman, however, did not feel so bad. He met Joe that night at the Gridiron Dinner and said to him: "You can have him, I don't want...
...Martin, who had indicated his willingness to be a presidential nominee, feel pretty good about it? Said Joe modestly: "Well, you got to keep on the ball all the time...
...described himself, over the clattering of newsreel cameramen, as "a Republican and responsible-sometimes that takes you on the liberal side, sometimes on the other, but at all times you feel your responsibility." He said that he had indeed phoned his wife in Pasadena. "I came out of it reasonably well, but she doesn't think much of the idea...
...conductor had carefully planned his retirement. "When I was young," he explained afterwards, "I told myself I would retire at the highest point in my career. I feel that it is the time." His 75th birthday comes in July 1949. Koussevitzky will go on conducting until he has celebrated his 25th anniversary in Boston next year-marking a longer period as conductor of the Boston Symphony than any man before him. He was pleased with his timing: "It is very Koussevitzky. It is my style...
...most popular painter in the world today is probably Vincent Van Gogh. The public of today, that honors him, is prone to feel superior to his own public of yesterday, that ignored him, and to forget that a better way to judge its taste is in the respect it pays to the original talents of its own day. The 14 Van Gogh masterpieces on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week had all been painted in the last years of his life. Looking back, it was hard to see how anyone could have been blind to them...