Word: felt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt, master of words, is allergic to certain words with which the press has ticketed his acts. He disliked "death sentence" when applied to his holding-company bill. He felt that "court-packing plan" was unjust to his attempted reform of the Federal judiciary. "Purge" he hated; it smacked of Stalin and Hitler. By last week a new word annoyed him: "appeasement," as applied to his big push to restore Business confidence. "Appeasement" sounded as though he had done something to Business for which he now sought to apologize...
...predicting the future Potter felt that it was impossible for any one to make an accurate forecast...
Within five minutes Drs. Philip Work and James A. Stapleton diagnosed the strange case. John Bellinger was dissatisfied with his status as a dishwasher, they said, and he felt in his unconscious mind that he could not face the world, so he turned his back on it, attempted to retreat into a happy past. He had a simple case of hysteria, much milder than that of many sensitive persons who suddenly become blind or paralyzed when faced with an intolerable situation. Dr. Stapleton began to investigate Bellinger's "life activities from birth to the present," prepared to discuss Bellinger...
...relations between England and France he felt are now better than ever, because there is an understanding that has gone down to the masses. America is being increasingly drawn into this alliance both because of her common background and the fact that her future is insolubly wound up with the existence of the French Army and the English Navy...
...hand over fist on its gold Key, whose cost remained unchanged, although its gold content was reduced. To cover this deficit, and also incidentally to pay for an intellectual freedom campaign on the side, the Society was found to be in need of $300,000. And while the world felt itself rolling nearer and nearer the edge of eternity, the Phi Beta Kappa Society again was forced to admit that it was bound hand and foot, and could do nothing about...