Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Consternation reigned in Reno. Paris and even Vera Cruz or Mexico City had charms outrivalling those of the Nevada beauty spot beloved of Mary Pickford. Tom Mix and others of the beau monde, who just love American home life--the more homes the better. Reno Rotarians felt that something had to be done...
Albert Frick lay propped on the hospital bed, languid, breathing by hand. He had felt miserable; had had a couple of teeth pulled at the dentist's. Going home to his rooming-house in Evanston, Ill., outside Chicago, muggy-minded, dazed, a motor car had hit him, hurt the back of his neck a trifle. Now he was in St. Francis Hospital, Evanston...
...legs lay straight out before him under the bed blankets. But they felt crossed and he could not move them. They were paralyzed. So was his bladder and his throat and his diaphragm. Two men whom he knew?fellow employes of the Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois (Samuel Insull, Chairman) ?stood at either side of his body. With their hands they were pushing down on his chest and squeezing air out of his lungs. When they let go, a little air would whistle back into his lungs...
...Girl Scouts and local War veterans protested, but nothing was done until one night last week, unable to stand it longer, Girl Scout Mildred Sorenson, 15, climbed the hoisting tower and chopped the flag free. Coming down she lost her hold, fell 40 feet, never regained consciousness. Lexington, Neb., felt better posted on flag etiquette...
...money and watches, cut the soles of their shoes for concealed gold. Later they marched the Major and his companions barefooted over the hot sands for many hours, hid them, in sacks on camels' backs while tribesmen shot at planes sent in search of the flyers. But now he felt fine. Soon he would try again to fly home from so gracious and hospitable Spain...