Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought non-coöperation the mildest and most absurd of protests. So long as the masses could bathe uninterruptedly in the holy waters of the Ganges, what did it matter to them who ruled India? And, farther south, the millions of Tamils, Telagus, and others knew little, saw little, felt little, except the heat...
...galloped for brandy, Lou felt that the earth was flooded with evil, the positive evil that reins mankind to earth, keeping an unruptured surface over mankind's internal hemorrhage. As soon as possible, she went away with her mother and St. Mawr. Rico wanted St. Mawr shot or castrated, but Lou got him away to Texas-where he shed his deity on the wide, empty plains and made advances to a tall Texas mare...
...year ago, Mr. Nash evidently felt his conscience prick him. He decided to distribute his $600,000 worth of stock among his employes. He told them: "If I took this $600,000 and personally appropriated it, I would be the archfiend of the ages. If I snatched this money that you have helped to earn away from you, my conscience would condemn me for being the greatest robber that ever walked on God's footstool...
...Gladiolus," said the professorial gentleman. Edna Stover, 11, of Trenton, N. J., felt baffled. "Gladiolus," repeated the gentleman. "It is the name of a flower." Edna took his word for it. She gulped. "G-l-a-d-y-o-l-u-s," said Edna, and looked scared. The gentleman was sympathetic. That really was pretty close for guessing, but he waved her aside and she had to stumble off the platform to her seat. If she cried when she got there, it was nerves, not bad sportsmanship. "G-L-A-D-I-O-L-U-S." Loudly, brightly, firmly, confidently...
...various estimates, between 300 and 400 million people. By far the greater part of these are unaware of the events which are taking place in the outside world. But among the millions that inhabit the maritime and adjacent provinces or, conveniently, conscious China, it is otherwise. They have felt the effects of foreign domination and foreign exploitation of their resources, and they have resented the presence of aliens whom they believe to be in China solely for their own gain and whom they rightly or wrongly regard as intruders...