Word: mood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mood to sympathize with this angry and outraged fellow citizen of mine; and I seriously doubt whether any intelligent citizen exists today who, in given circumstances, would not heartily approve of his indictment...
...Some pained group of alumni might even ask for a retraction. But undergraduates with their happy indifference will do better to take Time for the rusty little organ it is and discard its serious avowals of truth for truth's sake as but another symptom of their wondrous merry mood...
...name is Ophelia, if anyone wants to know. She is a Great Dane. With this the factual matter available about Ophelia, that can be printed, ends. Saturday's playful exposition of a mood, arranged, it is to be supposed, by one or those who love football, the spectacle, ought likewise to end--if he is at all psycho-receptive,--the appearances of Ophelia. The appearance of a valued member of the Harvard staff putting on the dog in a public place, when it is still a month to his annual act at the Yale rally, is not alone an anachronism...
...back to football. I feel in a confidential mood today. I'll tell you all about the Army game. Sh-h-h! Harvard will score in the first seven minutes of play, two lateral passes from Guarnaccia to French playing a big part. French will kick the goal. Score at end of first quarter, Harvard 7, Army...
...transition to a new and sober era is not going to be easy. The American people are in a mood of invincible optimism. Three years ago they were speculating in Florida real estate and finally that bubble burst. They then speculated in urban real estate. . . . Now they have turned to the stockmarket, where prices of the stocks of mail order houses, chain stores, motor companies and soft-drink firms are selling on a basis to yield half as much as the obligations of the U. S. government...