Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This has been the HOC's most successful year thus far, its officers feel. For 15 year the club's membership never exceeded 70 and this year 200 have paid their dollar dues. Siddall attributes this year's especially high membership to the extensive membership campaign the HOC launched early this fall. The most successful element in this campaign, he says, was the distribution of literature about the HOC's activities...
...cities, the prestige of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had sunk lower than the Yangtze. An American traveler in Shanghai wrote home: "His name is mud in all classes-they feel toward him as Americans felt toward Herbert Hoover in 1933." The U.S. Embassy was evacuating Americans as fast as it could. In the U.S. itself headlines flared the black news. China-and what to do about it-was Page One; Asia's howitzers could now be heard in Kansas City, although the U.S. still had only a very partial notion of how big its stake was in the China...
...Tanner, condemned by a Communist-run tribunal for advocating war with Russia in 1941, had been granted remission of half his 5½-year sentence. "I am sure I am the best living advertisement for Finnish prisons," smiled the old man. "I have gained 15 pounds in weight and feel fitter than ever...
...After a steady diet of this type of novel, I find the very mention of 'historical romance' leaves me cold and uninterested. I believe that even a good thing can be overdone." Did the million and more members of the Literary Guild feel the way Miss Mussi did? A year ago, when guild editors polled their members, 75% said they were eager for most costume-built novels. Now, the Guild confessed nervously, a good many members seem to be agreeing with Miss Mussi...
According to McDonald, Congressional leaders and administration advisers have looked favorably upon federal scholarship aid, and leaders in education feel that the scholarship plan has a good chance to passing through Congress...