Word: felt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free and erect a mind as any I have ever met.' Just the same, two years of Thoreau as handyman around the place was more than enough for Emerson. Said witty Elizabeth Hoar: "I love Henry but do not like him," and Emerson, who knew how she felt, often quoted her wisecrack. Even closer to Henry was his crony, Poet Ellery Channing, who wrote the first Thoreau biography. Channing once confessed: "I have never been able to understand what he meant by his life...
...second floor of the museum there is a landscape by Derain which is highly representative of the dignified coherence and low tonality found in most of his other paintings. Derain is by no means a mere imitator: he is a good painter and his individuality succeeds in making itself felt. But it is interesting to see the imprint of Cczanne's body on the hills and now and then Van Gogh's head peeping out from behind the trees...
...classes, his total abstinence from the letter "r" along with his notable hospitality, have become as much a part of life here as John Harvard's statue or the elms in the Yard. We hope that Professor Coolidge, even after his retirement, will not make his absence too sharply felt by withdrawing completely from the scenes in which he has taken so great a part for so many years...
However, other lineup switches were felt imminent, if not before the Chicago game. Jim Devine and Bartow Kelly are still fighting for the right end berth. And Gone Lovett, now recovered from a slight injury, will be well up in that controversy...
Since Renascence (1917) Millay has published 14 books of verse that have in one way or another kept her title intact. Though she has shown an increasing disillusionment with the world, the world has refused to be disillusioned with her. She can say that life, which she once felt was a flame, is really a frost, and be thanked for the pains of saying...