Word: comprehends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intellectual seemed a platitude, and I can understand why intellectuals wondered why in addition to pronouncing self-evident facts I even dwelt upon them and illustrated them. Yet I always said to myself, 'There is this or that humble man in my audience who does not yet quite comprehend what I am driving at, so I must make it clear to him by the humblest illustration from daily life...
Democratic Senate Leader Robinson snorted: "It is difficult to comprehend the mental processes of those who reach such a conclusion...
...things merely for a selfish reason-trying to acquire a public office, which I would not accept if it were tendered me. It may be that in your environment you are so accustomed to things being done from a purely selfish motive, that it is difficult for you to comprehend that there are people, who do not belong to the "axe grinder's club" and that in Texas things are done on a broader scale. Perhaps on this account, allowance should be made for your insinuation...
...literature, and who was to do it? One by one the post-war men of letters are held up for scrutiny and found wanting. Each failed to realize the task before him, or realizing it, fled from it. The sectionalists, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Eggleston and Cable, did not comprehend the whole. The fugitives, Sarah, Orne Jewett, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, sought sanctuary in trifling worlds of their own. William Dean Howells sounded the right note, but was too limited in experience and ability to be successful. The genteel writers of the nineties merely catered to bourgeois prejudices. Then came...
...society girls, political ward heelers, postmen, newspaper circulation solicitors, even school children went from door to door, reciting little set speeches about "putting more men to work and increasing buying power." Most householders quickly agreed to do their buying at Blue Eagle shops but few of them pretended to comprehend the economics of the campaign. Here & there an oldtime "rugged individualist" loudly refused to go along. By last week the following Big Names had signed up as Blue Eagle consumers...