Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill, and all are handled well, though simply. The chowder, of all sorts is good; the swordfish, at times, causes an instantaneous migration of the taste-buds into a taste-bud Paradise; and one's stomach, with the appended palate, will almost literally reach out to grasp the blue-points; there is, of course, no langouste, which is a pitty, and liquor is not served. The prices are as low as can be found...
...most unassuming Englishman alive, not a snob, and speaker of probably the only unaccented English in the world. He runs with natural ability a job not of his own choosing, which your Brain Trust would bungle in a day. Stretch every American's brain far enough to grasp that the monarchy is a different thing from the man who is King, and that British royalist sentiment has little to do with the blah-haw-haw which selected Englishmen, usually pabliticians, spill through the cigar smoke at Hands-Across-the-Sea dinners...
...serving his fourth term as president, Broker Hudson is head of Hudson Sons Co., a direct successor to his father's concern which once had a firm grasp on the whole U. S. salt business. Broker Hudson went west from Ohio by easy stages, helped found the Salt Lake Stock Exchange, moved to San Francisco at the century's turn. He claims that never in his 78 years of life did he advise a customer to buy or sell a share of stock, holding to the West Coast tradition that every man has an inalienable right...
...Norman Thomas is not alone in insisting that the present administration has undertaken a task whose implications it does not seem to grasp. After almost a year spent in getting cards by the New Deal, the nation has a right to ask the administration's answer to a few rather fundamental questions. What does the "self-government" of industry mean, and how does it differ from the self-government which preceded Mr. Roosevelt's inauguration? How does it square with Senator Wagner's "Industrial democracy"? What does "industrial democracy" mean if we are to have no regular democratic organization...
...Chicago Convention, through the municipal elections last autumn when Farley and Flynn backed a "Recovery" ticket. They were beaten but defeat did not dampen their ambitions. Tammany was also licked and they saw a chance to seize the city's Democratic machine from Tammany's slipping grasp. Once in a generation a revulsion of feeling elects a Fusion-Reform Administration, but between times, year after year, the local Democratic machine rules the city. To the ambitions of Bosses Farley and Flynn Mayor LaGuardia's plan for revamping the city government was as great a danger...