Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...domestic matters. Hull remembered those differences with a wince. "I was frankly glad not to be invited into the White House groups where so often the 'liberal' game was played on an extreme basis." He once said to Roosevelt: "I can't help but feel that you're going too fast and too far with certain of your domestic reforms...
...should come, us we feel it will, may those men face their flag who talk so valiantly now of peace . . . Today is the chance for you. No self-interest, no shuffling of the demands of conscience should shake you. Be true to your manhood, to your education, to your youth. The time is now. In three months it may be too late." (February...
...hiring Rodzinski: "Chicago's musical future looks bleak indeed when a man like Rodzinski can be arbitrarily fired." Hearst's veteran Chicago Critic Ashton Stevens published a wire he had sent to Rodzinski: "I used to think the Capone mob retarded civilization in Chicago, but tonight I feel that the Orchestra Hall boys [the trustees] have made Al and his gang look like Robin Hood and his merry men. ... So they huddled upstairs and gave you the black sack. . . . God help the knowing ears of Chicago...
...takes the cake, or most of the frosting anyhow, for fancy plot. A rich San Francisco music lover (Merle Oberon) decides that what poor, blind, bitter Composer Dana Andrews needs, if he is ever to finish his concerto, is the love of a girl whom he can't feel is pitying him. She pretends to be blind and poor; Dana falls for her, and his genius starts boiling...
...begins to hit the high spots. He can't bear to return to his blind sweetheart. Merle comes East and pretends to be a rich girl who loves music and can see. He falls for her again but this time neither of them is happy, for both feel that the blind girl is being treated shabbily. At last Dana's concerto is played in Carnegie Hall (with Artur Rubinstein at the piano); he hears the music the blind girl inspired, and the love interest gets straightened...