Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calvin Coolidge told Bruce Barton of his early life, his later thoughts. "As I now recall it," he said, "I had always rather hoped that I might keep store when I grew up. ... I have never been able to think that fate was guiding my destiny. I have rather felt that I was obliged to look after it myself...
...following day Sir Esme Howard felt obliged to say: "My statement was ... an expression of my personal opinion . . . and not given under instructions from my Government...
Many a musical person in Boston, Chicago and Manhattan felt his nose a little out of joint last week on reading a widespread report of Concert Manager George Engles. Laporte, Ind., said Manager Engles, not Boston, Chicago or Manhattan, is "the most musical city in the U. S." Nine per cent of its population (15,158) attend concerts regularly as against an average 4% for the rest of the country. Newark, Ohio, rates second with 6%. Big centres like Manhattan and Chicago, despite their great opportunities, pull down the average with less than 1% attendance. Of the larger cities, Boston...
Musical Boston has been feeling itself hard put to preserve its reputation. A symphony orchestra is the greatest of luxuries. Its existence depends always on the beneficence of a patron or a group of patrons. Again, last week, the Boston Symphony felt sorely its annual deficit complaint, and printed in the program books a plea for funds. The Boston Symphony's prospective deficit this year is $134,000 as against $87,000 last year...
News of Mr. Adams's appointment was received with widespread approval in naval circles and elsewhere, for it is felt that an experienced man is much needed to improve the morale of the navy...