Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...akin to a surrender of principles. I do not think he has ever understood the human heart. . . ." Candidate Dawes. ". . . He was not one of the Arrow Collar Kids of politics they usually put up for the Vice Presidency. . . . Well, there he is, a man who has done more and felt more than most men have, a cautious banker and a mad enthusiast, an artist, the best of friends, a hard boiled business man exploding with emotion, thinking straight in figures, but illogical and picturesque in speech. . . ." Candidate Bryan. "Younger brother to greatness, private secretary to a three-times candidate...
...talents, passions, ambitions of these people. So she adopted the accurate sobriquet, Unity, and spent her life trying to make it fit. She married a man, Brian Jessup, who went in swimming drunk, at midnight, in Sidney, Australia. She married an automaton, Michael Lord Mowbray, of whom she felt she was unworthy because he could not understand her. But only Adrian Gore, the man with the grey eyes, could give her Unity. This book is the elegant elaboration of a somewhat frayed psychological formula. It fails to convince because the author attempts to show how a human doll works...
Attention to mannerisms goes to extremes in "The Hobgoblins Defeated" by John Finley Jr. There is a savor of Max Beerbohm in the persiflage, but parts of the story, especially at the beginning, are so involved in construction as to be clumsy, and at the close I felt imposed upon, as if I had been listening too long to a young man enjoying his own cleverness in soliloquy at my fireside...
...Long Felt Need of Rest...
...year I shall not stand by the piano and talk to you of plans for the Workshop and the doings of its members. Since we completed ten years of our work together,--some of us writing and producing, you stimulating and shaping by your attendance and comments,--I have felt the need of rest and a gathering of new impetus. However, till now, I have not seen the time when I believed that I could rightly allow the activities of the 47, Workshop to cease for a year. Last Spring, a fire in the attic of Massachusetts Hall seriously burned...