Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...message. The consensus of these predictions favored: 1) tax reduction; 2) agricultural relief; 3) the railroads; 4) no general building or " pork barrel" bill, but a program for the better housing of Government departments at the Capital. Whether or not the President designs to make it so, it is felt that the first of these will stand out. It was not generally agreed whether the President would definitely support the tax plan of Secretary Mellon (TIME, Nov. 19) or favor tax reduction in such general terms as would permit of compromise. A soldiers' bonus and participation in the World...
...list of virtues which he trotted inside like a grey nag in a paddock". He addresses the shade of Crevecoeur with this wagging finger: "Hector St. John, you have lied to me. You lied even more scurrilously to yourself. Hector St. John, you are an emotional liar". Fenimore Cooper felt himself superior to the bourgoise but would not admit it, and therefore lied. "The blue-eyed darling Nathaniel (Hawthorne) knew disagreeable things in his inner soul. He was careful to send them out in disguise". And so the same through Dana, Melville and Whitman. "Always the same. The deliberate consciousness...
There is vast hope for this new child of antique parentage. Many men have felt that their friendships of Freshman years have been stifled and killed by segregation into small and circumscribed groups. The proposed amalgamation is apparently an attempt to alleviate this situation and to promote more genial association; as such it deserves general support...
This action comes as a result of the growing dissatisfaction of the two clubs with their present condition. For the past decade it has been felt that the two clubs have been going rapidly down hill, overlapping each other and dividing the energy of men who belonged to both organizations. The chief argument against the proposed combination has been that it will mean the throwing over of many old and sacred traditions. But in the drawing up of plans for the amalgamation, it has been particularly emphasized that traditions of each club will be carefuly maintained, and that such traditions...
...seen walking through a poor part of London (where he lives) dressed "disgracefully " in an ill-fitting suit with baggy trousers, a mis-shapen soft felt hat perched upon his massive head, carrying a portfolio of papers, nodding absently to neighbors as if he were lost in some abstruse theological question, as he marches with his characteristic swinging gait to St. Stephen's Club opposite the House of Commons...