Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matter of Health. The two statesmen did not feel as chipper as they looked. For one thing, their personal health was not good. Just back from a Swiss resort where he had been treated for a digestive ailment, Cripps took austere vegetarian meals at a small table in the ship's dining room. As a fellow sufferer under doctor's orders, Bevin dieted in his cabin-nothing but boiled fish, poultry, milk puddings, custards. Between meals they wrestled together with the bigger problem of Britain's economic health...
...Among the standing features: "Tumor Topics" and "Cancer Quiz." The Bulletin could say anything with enthusiasm. Inch-high type clarioned: "EVERY PERSON HAS A RECTUM . . . Any Doctor Can Examine It." An article on digital examination to detect cancer of the breast was briskly headed "Stop, Look and Feel," and decked with 17 drawings in color. The editors and artists even hit on a way to make a cover design for castration (a palliative for cancer of the prostate). They used a three-color cartoon of a topi-topped explorer cutting off an orchid, laboriously explained that orchis is Greek...
Last week Iowa-born Scripter-Novelist Kent explained to the New York Herald Tribune what makes Portia and other sudsy heroines click: "Every soap-opera heroine ... is, by definition, a much stronger person than her husband or any man in her orbit . . . Possibly the Amen can woman feels actually so dependent, economically and emotionally, on her husband that she has to appease her insecurity by identifying herself with one or more soap-opera heroines whose husbands can have no secrets from them . . . [This heroine], swayed, as she is always saying, only by her love for her husband and children...
When she got to the piano, she didn't have much idea of what she was going to play. She has never worried much about that. "If the crowd is noisy, or I don't feel so good, I just play some of my old arrangements and get out," says Mary Lou, flashing her white teeth. "If I feel like it and the crowd is good, then I just settle back and maybe do a little composing right on the spot...
Said one visitor from Los Angeles, who had managed to breakfast on a symphony concert, lunch on T. S. Eliot's new play, The Cocktail Party (see THEATER), and sup on Verdi's A Masked Ball: "I feel as if I had eaten too much plum pudding. But the awful thing is I want more...