Word: felt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honest Elzire Dionne might have been called a backwoods impostor if one or more of the Quintuplets had died and been disposed of before photographers got there to record the scene. But at Liverpool, England, Mrs. George Taylor of Purgin Street took no such chances when last May she felt that she might set some sort of nativity record. She had herself Xrayed, and sure enough she was carrying quadruplets...
...Except for some legislative spadework accomplished in committee, the 37-day special session was a farce. The third session, which began on January 3, and ran 154 days until one sultry evening last week, was the most productive period of the 75th Congress. As the end approached, Franklin Roosevelt felt kindly enough toward the members to scribble each chamber a note on his private green letter paper. ". . . Much constructive legislation for the benefit of the people. Definitely, we are making progress...
...entertainment. He had invited famed Olympic Sprinter Jesse Owens to do his stuff before the game, had hired two fife & drum corps and a couple of brass bands. At 9:45 when the grandstand customers who had paid $1.10 (and the 3,000 bleacherites who had paid 55?) felt that they had just about received their money's worth, the umpire croaked "Play ball." The visiting team was the Cincinnati Reds, MacPhail's old boys, most of whom he himself had rounded up from the minor leagues...
...true democracy, it puts its trust in the common sense of the individual and offers him every school of thought from which to choose his own. Its classes contain men from more strata of society, its lecture rooms are the goal of more men, its prestige and influence are felt farther abroad than ever before...
Born in Cambridge, Mass. in 1894, Poet Cummings first made his literary presence felt with a novel, The Enormous Room (1922), written after he had served in an ambulance unit and as a private in the World War. Readers of the book, which gave some remarkably detailed dirt on life in an internment camp, were aware that something new was loose in the literary world. What it was became only gradually clearer when Cummings published Tulips and Chimneys (1923) and six subsequent volumes of poems. With their peculiar typography, syntax, and use of words, these books struck most first-time...