Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waste the time and space of such a valuable publication as TIME by giving its readers the opportunity of flaying its articles and one another? TIME fills a long felt want on the reading table of the minister, one I might say that has been rather hard to meet...
...this trying impasse the position of Premier Briand was not so desperate as might at first appear. In ordinary circumstances he would have felt called upon to resign after so spectacular a rebuke to his chief minister. But last week French public opinion obviously continued to regard Pére Briand as the one man who can still save the nation by constitutional means. (Although Le Matin, influential organ of famed editor Stephane Lauzanne, called for the dissolution of Parliament and the establishment of a dictatorship by "staunch and courageous men outside of politics...
...diplomatic ballroom an orchestra of strings played a waltz. There was no confusion. The diplomats did not hear a single ribald chuckle of jazz; the charity strutters were not bored by the supplications of fiddle strings. Reporters asked Dr. Heyl questions. Said he: "The partition is made of hair felt, supported by thin boards of sugar-cane fibre, and the musical sounds become tangled and lost in this wilderness of hair and fibre. Hair, fibre and similar pliable substances, we have found, enmesh and deaden sound which would vibrate through the strongest steel...
...asked Mary Pickford how she felt about it and she said, 'You see, Laurette, I'm so little and our house is so big that I prefer to be called Mrs. Fairbanks at home. It makes me feel more important when I have to speak to the butler...
...prospects for Captain Haggerty's team next year are bright. Although the loss of Captain Tibbetts of this year's team will be felt keenly, Luttman, O'Neil and Gordon, out of this year's runners will return to form a nucleus...