Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down at the paradisal table set by Father Divine with chicken, ham, potatoes, rice, corn, cabbage, scalloped tomatoes, hominy, carrots, beets, a two-foot cheese, five different kinds of pie, ice cream, and "two cakes as big as automobile tires." After three hours, she rose and cried: "I feel different than when I came...
Enlarged, enriched by this experience, she and her butler husband became angels, contributed all their savings to the Divine treasury, said she. Later, 54-year-old Mrs. Brown began to feel different again. Into court last week she marched to confront an inscrutable little Father Divine. He might be God to thousands of Negroes and white people, but he was God no longer to disgruntled Mrs. Brown. She wanted her money back. So did some others she represented. Mrs. Brown began to testify. At that moment the Black Eagle swooped from Harlem...
...Hitler has really sacrificed himself to a great cause. He has made lots of people feel good. Think of the poor average American leading his mechanical, time-clock existence with his fat wife and his four-room duplex. Before Hitler the only things he had to look forward to were getting drunk on Saturday night and Roosevelt's fireside chats. Even movies held no charm for him. Imagine seeing a picture with Paulette Goddard in it, while sitting next to a hefty wife! Now he can guess philosophically about how long it will be before...
...Parker may not seem quite so startling as she did in the dear dead days, but her stories still pack an impressive punch. . . . John O'Hara has some more tough stories in "Files On Parade" many of them good, although one can't help but feel that he is capable of better than he has been giving us. . . "Sailor off the Bremen," by Irwin Shaw, is a collection of twenty stories by a young writer who started with "Bury the Dead" and has continued to turn out work of startling excellence. . . Ludwig Bemelman's "Small Beer" has ten sketches, dealing...
...thought Youth is always told that it should pay great respect to Age and it always does, but inside it usually shrugs or maybe even sneers and if it does have a feeling of respect it is only because of an externally imposed habit and not because of an honest spontaneous sentiment. Usually, perhaps, but that was not so tonight. In these surroundings it was impossible not to feel something like awe for that figure slowly getting up to cut the cake...