Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Department stores were already beginning to feel buyer resistance. For the first time in many weeks, sales for the week ending Feb. 14 fell below the corresponding 1947 period. They dropped most in clothing. In New York City the garment trades, which should have been hustling with summer business, were hard hit. Some 10,000 had been laid off or put on part time. "Popular"-priced dress manufacturers reported that their clothes were not popular at all. They blamed the "unreasonable" prices charged at the mills for their cloth. But many mills reported that they were booked solidly through June...
...king. It was then too late; Mirabeau's strength was gone, and his advice was not followed, or was accepted only in part. The queen, with "her superficial and malicious intelligence, which excelled in seizing on slight slips and ridiculing them," disregarded his warnings. Readers may feel that it would not have been so tragic had it merely cost her her life, but that with it went the dream of the Rights of Man and the triumph of the Revolution which had been, until then, almost bloodless...
...that Kay Boyle's novels so often disappoint? She has a glittering style that seizes the reader and carries him away at a nervous quickstep. But when the reader drops exhausted at the end, he is apt to feel more cheated than rewarded. Her tense characters are whipped by urgencies too violent for the problems they face; and as people, they don't stand a chance of survival between the same covers with Author Boyle's high-tension, consuming prose...
...feel our efforts in gaining wide-spread support for this program will greatly further a constructive liberal approach to the present European problem...
...Quisenbery assures me that this is not what the AVC had in mind, but in order to avoid any possible confusion in the minds if your readers I feel I ought to make the procedure absolutely clear...