Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Personally, while I envy men who have the opportunity to write editorials, either under dateline or in their home paper, I have never felt that I had the right to do so. I consider my function as a press correspondent to be neutral and detached and simply to report developments as they arise, irrespective of the effect of the writings on the fortunes of the party of individual...
...choice the foundation permits. The renascence of the provision of scholars who might arouse intellectual enthusiasm in undergraduates beyond the confines of tabulated courses, was such a happy one initiated by Gilbert Murray, and recalling the crowded lecture halls of James and Santayana, that its early lapse will be felt by those who knew its boons...
Joseph Montana, "king of bootleggers," felt he needed a new ice box in his apartment on Chicago's West Side. He ordered one weighing 500 Ibs. Two draymen delivered it last week. As they placed it on the rear porch, the porch gave way. Down, three stories, plunged icebox and draymen. One drayman died...
When the Nina sailed into Santander the people, waiting on their launches to see the end of the race, mistook her for the larger* Atlantic which arrived an hour later. The Atlantic, as well as the Pinta, felt last week the force of stormier winds than those which touched them in July. Gerard Lambert, her owner, received a radio from the captain who was sailing back from Cowes to the U. S.; two days before the hurricane reached Porto Rico, he reported that he had encountered ari 80-mile gale, the worst in his experience. His radio message was brief...
...mouth of President Calvin Coolidge. Credit for this scoop goes to the London Sketch and to a smart, egotistical young man named Beverley Nichols, who led British readers to believe that President Coolidge had spoken those very words. Perhaps Mr. Nichols, careless in the matter of quotation marks, felt that what the President actually said about art required an Oxonian polish. In any case, this unparalleled abuse of an interviewer's privilege did not prevent Doubleday Doran & Co. from inviting Mr. Nichols to edit their American Sketch (society chit-chat). New here, Mr. Nichols has doubtless been informed that...