Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Felt the breath of electric fans installed in the Senate Chamber for the first time in several years- denoting that the session is expected to last into hot weather...
Zaghlul, knowing himself persona non grata to the British, came to discuss whether he might assume the premiership. It was almost as though President Coolidge, duly erected by a Republican landslide, had felt obliged to ask the ambassador of a foreign power at Washington whether he might enter the White House...
...filth was the predominant motif, with yellow fever the counterpoint, U. S. health officials scoured the city clean, but yellow fever persisted epidemically. Dr. Walter Reed came with his staff from Washington to investigate. On the hunch of an old Cuban physician, he experimented with mosquitoes, heretofore unsuspected and felt fairly assured that they were the carriers of the dread malady. But he needed proof and he found it when, after months of experiments, a virulent mosquito bit and infected one of the doctors on his staff. Another intrepid physician submitted himself to experimentation, was infected, died...
...Billancourt, just outside Paris, the rows of shops of the Societe Anonyme des Usines Renault had been shut down for nine days. Baggy trousered watchmen, caped gendarmes paraded warily 'about the works. At street corners and at the cafes of the workers' quarter morose workers in felt derbies, flattened peaked caps or black sailor straws, harangued one another. They wanted an immediate raise of 20% in wages. The company was willing to advance only 10%. Impasse. Many a worker regretted the quietude of last May Day, on which in past years workers had demonstrated their discontents...
...Significance, the grand thing, is to have made Walt known as a natural force is known, by its unhurried yet manifest effects?by putting the reader into the boots of people who knew and felt Walt, bringing his big frame and nature so close that psychological terms are irrelevant and it is unnecessary even to quote the poems to show why they were written, what they mean. If there is a mite of unction spread through Author Rogers' pages, it is not obtrusive nor out of place in a book that is bound to be laid warmly and strongly...