Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civilians could feel pretty certain last week that no labor draft was going to upset their lives. The Senate Military Affairs Committee,* after listening to the protests of such varied antidraft groups as the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the C.I.O., the A.F. of L., railway labor, the National Farmers Union, the National Grange, etc., had smothered the makeshift May-Bailey bill, which might have done...
...aloof pre-Hilton days, Los Angeles' Town House frightened merry transients away with its forbidding, exclusive atmosphere. Then, in 1942, came Hilton. Out went the haughty air. In came bright flowers, elaborate bars, hot music and floor shows. Employes were instructed to stop freezing guests and make them feel at home. Soon Hilton's old Texas friends and others long awed by the Town House began to make it their California headquarters. Up went the profits...
...Dominion was not only experimenting with all the myriad painting styles of the western world, but had also begun a hardy local regionalism of its own. Among its outstanding modern exponents was the "Group of Seven," formed just after World War I. They painted "the very look and feel of Canada," and resembled the famed "Ashcan School" which appeared in the U.S. in 1908 (Luks, Bellows, Sloan...
Since correspondents should be thorough, we searched for the why & wherefore of this unseemly phenomenon. Perhaps, we said, these are no ordinary eggs. But tomorrow morning's breakfast egg produced by our unsuspecting cook was as disturbingly vertical. We shall not feel quite the same after that breakfast. We asked if hens are fed different food, perhaps BB shot, at this time of year? There was no evidence. Bizarre theories, having to do with the moon's pull, were frowned upon. Even Jimmy Wei, sprightly sage of the Ministry of Information, had no information. "Why try to explain...
Patriotic Protege. Balding, handsome Alexei had been Acting Patriarch since Sergei's death (TIME, May 22), and his election came as no surprise. He is popular, strongly patriotic and his predecessor's protege. Said one church official before the election: "We all feel it will be Alexei. . . . It's just like Mr. Roosevelt...