Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon began to feel as though he were living under a magnifying glass. The tabloid New York Daily News began referring to him as a Love Child. The tabloid Daily Mirror, disregarding facts, made up a raffish story of its own. It suggested that Mrs. Greer had been secretly married to the late George V of England, concluded that Harold Segur was probably the Duke of Windsor's half brother. Segur grew more & more confused...
...named Iva Kitchell had rented Manhattan's 2,700-seat Carnegie Hall with considerable misgivings last week. But dance fans almost filled the place. Wrote the New York Times's dance critic John Martin: "If Miss Kitchell has her eye on Madison Square Garden, her friends need feel no qualms. . . . She . . . ought to be compelled to travel about the country on the trail of the various ballet companies to restore sanity...
...essential use only: homes, hospitals, certain heavy industries, etc. Then the Office of Defense Transportation ordered a 25% reduction in coal-powered passenger service. There was an overall 37-day supply on hand. Railroads had a 30-day supply, but steel mills, with only a 14-day stock, would feel the pinch almost immediately. At a time when decontrol had just been put in operation, a coal strike would cause havoc...
...rival C.I.O. In the tarnished ballroom of the Chelsea Hotel, John had given the carpenters' Bill Hutcheson a punch on the jaw (1935). In the same room, in 1940, John resigned the presidency of C.I.O. and Phil Murray mournfully became his successor. Murray had no reason now to feel any happier about...
What most impresses critics is the way Wasowski soft-pedals Chopin's sentimental lyricism, to stress the vitality and militancy of the music. Says Andre: "In my conviction, Chopin is not a sentimentalist. On the contrary when I am at the piano I feel his power and anguished revolutionary might." After a series of concerts in Rome, Wasowski will play in Amsterdam. To any American he meets, he says: "How can I get to the United States...