Word: felt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this Ambassador Suvich's haughty reply was, "I came here merely to participate in the dedication ceremonies . . . not to discuss politics," but as the successor to the closest thing to a dictator the U. S. has yet produced, Governor Leche felt called on to make apologies for Mr. Harrison. Said he: "There is an old saying that the pen is mightier than the sword. I think our friend resents any advantage on the part of the sword...
...Monday, the 7th day of last March, I met Mr. Richard Whitney for the first time. He then told me in effect that certain of his actions had been wrong . . . that he felt that a public confession was due from him. . . . He added that he was determined to meet the consequences. In 36 years of experience at the bar I had never heard such an astonishing statement. . . . There are other men without number who have sought legal advice to avoid or delay the law, have lent a willing ear to tactics or procrastination, have stooped to pleas denying mental...
Further, he declared that he felt he was especially well-equipped to do the work in American history and literature that was expected of him, and repeated his earlier statements that he had no objection to taking the Massachusetts teacher's oath, and that he would consider the oath binding...
...quite so hard hit are the semi-industrial, semi-agricultural regions such as upstate New York and Pennsylvania. Cold blast furnaces drove trade in the Pittsburgh region down 19%. In the furniture manufacturing area near Albany, citizens felt the dearth of new furniture buying and due to that and other causes trade fell 15%. Florida's dwindling tourist influx was offset by a flock of new paper mills to keep the decline to 18%. Birmingham coal and iron mines were less active. Cotton mills in Georgia and the Carolinas, which were working overtime year ago, were generally on part...
...strangers." Hating high-flown sentiments in all forms (he read Juvenal on the way to Damascus, did not like it because "I smell rhetoric"), he grows eloquent only about the Spanish civil war. After seeing Madrid under siege, feeling uncomfortable talking to soldiers because he could remember how he felt when journalists visited the front during the War, Dos Passes left Spain profoundly depressed: "How can they win? . . . How can the new world full of confusion and crosspurposes and illusions and dazzled by the mirage of idealistic phrases win against the iron combination of men accustomed to run things...