Word: felt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carr was having his wine cellar swiftly transformed into a cemented and sandbagged refuge against bombs, Viscount Runciman took off for London, but Viscountess Runciman stayed on to keep Czechoslovaks from feeling that Britain was deserting them. Over the weekend non-Nazi Sudeten Germans, previously cowed by Storm Troops, felt safe enough to sign up by thousands in the Sudeten Social Democratic Party. To check this trend, Sudeten Nazi No. 2 Ernst Kundt manifestoed Saturday to Nazis: "Remain within yourselves what you always were ! Keep waiting until Adolf Hitler and Prime Minister Chamberlain have completed their fateful conversations. Keep your...
...Manhattan she felt at home as soon as she walked into her first Christmas Eve party and saw her future husband, Adman J. Addison Robb Jr. "He had a little black mustache and shook up the cocktails. He was just my idea of a city slicker." When, after 18 months, Publisher Patterson suddenly promoted her to society editor, she simply carried her notebook and pencil to debutante parties and night clubs, asked friendly photographers to point out important faces...
...finally, he was bending over the contents of the brown envelope, mechanically reading the familiar registration formulae and still more automatically printing name, address, name, address, in countless little squares. He felt virtuous at the mere fact of being here, smugly so at being here on time, considering the conspiracy of God and man to keep him out of New England...
Despite these scarehead advance notices, the Freethinkers' meeting resulted in no rows, attracted 900 people, deist or otherwise, who felt in safe enough company with such speakers and endorsers of the congress as H. G. Wells, Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis, George Bernard Shaw, C. E. M. Joad. G. D. H. Cole, J. B. S. Haldane, Bertrand Russell, Edouard Herriot, Somerset Maugham. Typical subjects for discussion at the meetings: Science and the Churches; Youth, the Schools and Free Thought; Present Religions Reaction and the Menace of the Vatican...
...American War, the Russo-Japanese War. the Bryan campaigns, innumerable Washington anecdotes and scandals, innumerable expressions of fatigue and disgust. It includes explanations of U. S. foreign policy invaluable to future historians, as well as cranky comments about the Jews, weary descriptions of Theodore Roosevelt's energy (Adams felt tired just thinking about Roosevelt), and descriptions of Adams' difficulties in learning to drive his Mercedes at the age of 66. It ends on a note of unqualified despair. Adams died seven months before the Armistice. By means of an elaborate mathematical formula, he had calculated that society would...