Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Provost Furniss and Dean of the College William C. DeVane, both members of the Prudential Committee, have at various times described the informant as "trustworthy", "a person who felt it was his duty to Yale", and a "man trusted by Yale in the past...
...department felt that Mr. Cohen had little chance to clear himself. He knew only that he had been accused of communist activities and of association with known Communists...
...went away to a school near Paris run by the Christian Brothers; five years later he was teaching there. He heard much talk then of the "proletariat" and of revolution. But to farm-boy Maurin such solutions did not seem to be solutions at all. Man, he felt, should stay close to the land...
When Editor Louis Seltzer fed Staffer Frank Stewart a fancy lunch one day in 1938 and then "promoted" him to church editor of the Cleveland Press, Stewart felt like a fattened turkey under the ax. To Stewart, who had been night editor, sports editor and state editor of the Scripps-Howard Press (circ. 282,000), the promotion seemed a polite way of telling him that he was through. Like most daily newsmen, he thought a church editor was farther away from the news than any real journalist should ever get. For several days Stewart groused about his lot. Then...
...Foote's case, the more he dealt with his Russian masters and the more he saw of their methods, the more he felt disillusioned with his dream of communism. Reading his report, it is easy to believe that Handbook, with all its lack of action and its glossy evidence of a ghostwriter's assistance, is the work of a man who knows what he is talking about...