Word: felt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from male stenography via International Correspondence Schools to head a firm of his own. His Business Promotion Corp. had 14 employes, some fairly profitable accounts with Chrysler and other automobile dealers who bought his sales ideas. But when Michigan auto workers went on strike dealers no longer felt like spending money. Soon business for Cliff Knoble dried up. Last week the consequences of Cliff Knoble's personal depression blossomed in a full-page advertisement in the Detroit Free Press...
...that the seasoned veteran, General von Falkenhausen, German chief of staff of the Turkish Armies during the World War, was advising the stubborn if not wholly successful Chinese military strategists. Japan is an anti-Communist ally of Adolf Hitler's Germany and Benito Mussolini's Italy. She felt that Germans should not aid China, well knowing that the Germans constituted to a considerable extent the brains of the Chinese Army. Two months ago Germany obliged her Far Eastern ally by recalling the commission. When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek showed strong reluctance to release the Germans from their contracts...
...They will be sympathetic to Labor or they will be hostile and there is no middle ground." Mr. Baker's organizers found the social workers at Seattle about equally divided between: 1) Elders who regarded themselves rather as members of a profession than as proletarians. 2) Juniors who felt that the day of rewarding social workers with much praise and small pay should pass, and that the way to make it pass was to organize...
...Chicago this week visitors at the New Bauhaus found an exhibition of bewildering nameless objects: gadgets of wire, wood, sandpaper, linoleum, felt, rubber and ordinary paper cut in odd accordion-pleated patterns. These objects, which sometimes suggested the scraps left in cabinetmakers' shops, and sometimes the more outlandish contraptions of Rube Goldberg, represented part of the first year's work of the 70 students of the New Bauhaus...
Among her U. S. admirers, the most ardent was a 13-year-old Brooklyn boy named Walt Whitman, who testified that "nothing finer did any stage ever exhibit-and my boyish heart and head felt it in every minute cell." A year later, at the height of her fame, she quit the stage to marry the heir to a large Georgia plantation, handsome, dilettante Pierce Butler (no kin to Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler). Their marriage started badly, and got worse. When Fanny refused to compromise with social conventions, Pierce agreed with his family, who thought he had married beneath...