Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...negro once declared, when told to get a job at the Eagle Laundry, 'Boss, Ah ain't had no 'sperience in washin' eagles.'" That is the way Mr. Stewart, himself a Yale graduate, felt about addressing Harvard audiences, he declared; but his present lecture tour with its attendant hardships has prepared him for the ordeal of disclosing to them the history of his life. His humor only came into its own, he said, when he left business as a profession some four years ago. Until then, his precocious wit was disparaged unanimously by neighbors, schoolmates, and employers. The first phase...
...Johnson's abortive attempt to take the Republican nomination. Silk hats were everywhere in the stand, even Dick Jervis, the tall, the handsome head of the White House Secret Service men, was wearing one. There were a few exceptions. Senator Pat Harrison, for example, wore a broad brimmed black felt...
Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania rode first, astride a great horse, in swallow tails and black felt hat which he swept off, bowing as he passed. The President took no notice of him, but smiled and bowed to Mrs. Pinchot, following in a car. Some 1 Governors and Lieutenant Governors followed, riding in cars. Governor Trinkle of Virginia was escorted by the Richmond Light Infantry Blues in their tight-fitting blue uniforms with high helmets and waving white ostrich plumes. Last in the procession rode Governess Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, in a car with two other women. She leaned...
This item related how a woman, Katherine Puree by name, had entered an Automat, procured a sandwich, eaten the first half of it with impunity. As she began to chew the second half, she felt something in her mouth that seemed to be moving, independent of the action of her teeth and tongue. She screamed, spat vehemently, alarming many nearby customers of the Horn & Hardart Co. When the object she ejected passed her lips it bit her, causing her lip to bleed. A curious insect -or reptile -about a quarter of an inch long, badly mangled by Miss Puree...
...death of Arthur Beane, the University and the Phillips Brooks House have lost a faithful friend, a tireless worker, and a wise councillor. In his undergraduate days, and in his seven years at the Phillips Brooks House, the influence of his dominant personality and rugged Christian character was felt by hosts of students who look back upon him as one of the greatest influences for good in the University...