Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whittaker Chambers, the Klieg-lit and politically unstable, has aroused my interest. I want to be able to trim ship while reading TIME so that I can feel I'm not being...
...Stomp. The letter was nearly done. "It is said that in the last moments of one's life one thinks of all the bad things. I feel better in that I had my wish in learning of your safe return to Greenwich -you were so wonderful-understanding -I'm glad the newspapers gave you a decent report ... I can perhaps feel that as my last thoughts didn't turn up a lot of bad that I wasn't too bad in life . . . which God knows is more than bad enough." He added a postscript, "What...
...Waldo Emerson. "The sun has not yet illuminated the arch of heaven nor begun to display his brilliant beams," he wrote to an aunt in 1816, in a letter just found tucked away in the floor of an old Concord, Mass. house. "This I suppose is the time to feel inspired and this the time I shall improve to write to you." He finally had to wind it up, because "night with sable wings approaches and compels me to bid adieu." He was 13 at the time...
...morning to let visitors wander into the governor's mansion. He appoints "colonels" with a lavish hand (some 250 to date) and presents lesser fry with penknives-after first exacting a penny so "a friendship won't be cut." He enjoys the feel of clean white suits, but he never allows his interest in the finer things to interfere with a certain honest vulgarity. On the day after he was elected governor, he asked friends to his house, spread out a copy of the anti-Long New Orleans Item, and spent the afternoon spitting...
...campaign went on, Earl borrowed leaf after leaf from Huey's book. He promised the people things they would be "able to see and feel"-veterans' bonuses, roads, $50-a-month old age pensions. Sad Sam Jones promised too, but Earl was as specific as the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. He made it plain that a vote for Long was an order for material improvement. He abused the newspapers. Like Huey, he recited Invictus: "I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul...