Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was no doubt that the attic room was stuffy. Dice that have felt the sweat of men's hands, cards that are grimy on the edges and sticky on the faces, fiction magazines and cigarets that have been consumed, bedclothes that have been kicked into contortions-do not litter a rose garden. One dozen men were in this attic room; they had lived there for three weeks; they needed haircuts. One night last week, eleven of them were trying to sleep; the other one played a phonograph malignantly, said he would never let them go to sleep unless...
...none. The debts have come to have a bitter, almost raucous note in conversation. Forty-two Columbia professors, even with academic reticence, constitute an almost noisy chorus. And although Mr. Coolidge may be accused of paying only lip-service to economy, one can hardly doubt his sincere and heart-felt love of silence...
...Royal Highness seemed a boy; at 25, a lad; today, at 32, he passes for a youth. When he strode into The Bricklayers' Arms, a harmless enough "pub," shivering worn-out bums of 30 felt return the lively spring of their dead youth...
...miles from a concert hall. The conduct of the swelling business was continuously under the direction of Mr. Johnson, whose relatives were enriched by unfailing dividends, including an 80% one in 1916 and a 600% stock dividend in 1922, until 1925, when the competition of radio made itself dangerously felt. But Mr. Johnson, mechanic-president, had seen the hard time coming. He arranged with the Radio Corporation of America for a combination radio and talking machine week Victor reported earnings of $5,648,446 in the first nine months of 1926ime talking machine, before which Nipper one day squatted inquiringly...
...curious thing about Potemkin is that Director S. M. Eisenstein, striving religiously to make his film the drama of a group, almost permits one character to emerge as hero. Such an effect would have ruined the general scheme, yet so keenly does the need for individual enterprise make itself felt, in even a glorified crowd, that the proletarian artist must give it at least grudging recognition...