Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interviewed two days later, Mrs. Rogers said she felt sure Hoover would be elected, called him "greatest American distributer...
Captain Loewenstein, said his servants, had been reading a book, laid it down after carefully marking the place, took off his collar and tie, went to the washroom, vanished. The servants all professed that they felt no such rush of air as would commonly be experienced if the door of the plane, which was opposite the washroom door, had been opened and become a funnel for the suction of the 175 mile gale...
...been in Hugo, Tex., for a while, he played in a professional game for which he was paid $2.50. Then he played more for Hugo and was paid a little more and then he moved on to a town called Dennison. One afternoon a stranger in a tan felt hat watched him from the little stand beside the bleached, hot field. The stranger was Con- nery, scout for the St. Louis Cardinals; oilers had told Connery that there was a good player in Dennison. Connery paid $500 for Hornsby's release and handed him a ticket to St. Louis...
After the War (during which he secured dimes from school children to pay for a battleship) Promoter Crandall took up residence in Pittsburgh, where he attended to the public relations of the Rollin Clark Circuit. Last year, he felt again the desire for greater, more gallant enterprises. Desiring to resuscitate and improve an old-fashioned amusement, he bought a dance hall and started his first dance marathon...
...began to talk and confess to the public what a genial and gentle old fellow he really is. He made faces, explaining that he can look like Benito Mussolini and then, in a jiffy, look like his benevolent self. He pulled out his watch, said goodbye; and the audience felt sure that it had been fondled on the knee of a Great Old Grandpop...