Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feeble attempt to repay a service which could not be valued in terms of dollars, he said: "Last night I was speaking before an audience composed largely of veternas and I was proud to see that this objection was raised." But in spite of this fact, Mr. Vaile felt that such an objection was rather sentimental than practical, and he stated that the payment by the Government was bound to be of material benefit to the men who sacrificed so much for their country...
...human beings who were tested by the fires, but more, it tells of bright youth winning to brief glorious achievement and of riper age, which, having labored well, finds its highest accomplishment in dying for a cause believed-in. We have not forgotten. Those in the world who truly felt deeply in wartime, whose innermost beings were stirred, did gain something from the years of trial which time cannot wipe away. But we have glossed over the marks, a protecting covering has grown over the wounds, so that not all prying eyes about us may see. We guard our sorrows...
...little too far, and the unreality of it makes it less effective than if it had been more moderately treated; added to this the author has written dialogue that sounds at times like vaudeville repartee, giving a note of artificiality. But this fault is not very serious, and is felt only here and there...
...recently made him. It is a question, avers the "Nation", whether in 1917 the jury would have awarded the verdict in the man's favour, despite the justice of his cause. "But," concludes the comment, "times have changed, and universities can no longer bully a professor as they felt free to do when they had the patriotic pack behind them...
...gain selfish domination over our country; two of them powerful and strongly organized, the third not so powerful nor so well organized but the most immediately dangerous of the three"? According to the Klan's pamphlet "it is not necessary to name these groups as every man has felt pressure from them all". You think that of course the Klan is referring to the Republican, the Democratic and the Prohibition parties. Oh no! Then possibly it means capital and labor, with the middle class as the imminent danger. But no: closely as these groups answer the description the Ku Klux...