Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than a revo lutionary scholar's meal ticket. He and Marx collaborated constantly on their analysis of capitalism, their prophecies of capitalism's doom. He was quicker-witted and a more facile writer than Marx, who once told him: "You know that I am slow to grasp things, and that I always follow in your footprints." The Communist Manifesto, gist of the gospel according to Marx, was their joint work, as was also the monumental Capital (finished by Engels after Marx's death). Both of them were gluttons for work, both of them believed the Revolution...
Chill hotels and rooming houses! Perhaps Mr. Caffrey was seeking free board and room. There are many like that. There is no more welcoming smile, no warmer grasp of outstretched hand than that which is found at the open door of our hotels and apartment houses...
...Tribune's second section last week, and flanking Pundit Walter Lippmann's animadversions, "On The Record" began with no self-conscious fanfare but proved to be reading matter as solid as its famed neighbor. "I, like 120,000,000 other Americans," began Columnist Thompson, "will probably never grasp the truth about the money system." Thereupon, with no further matronly misgivings, Miss Thompson proceeded to discuss the profundities of the Corporation Tax Bill for some 1,500 words...
Laymen found it easiest to grasp the work of such semi-abstractionists as Italian Sculptor Umberto Boccieni, who in 1913 paraphrased the Louvre's famed Winged Victory with a statue of a striding form in which the muscles are whipped out into streamlined forms. Its title: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space...
Last week in the March American Mercury Henry Louis Mencken flayed Franklin Roosevelt, with a blistering summary of the New Deal which closed with the statement: "There was a time when the Republicans were scouring the country for a behemoth to pit against him. Now they begin to grasp the fact that if they can beat him at all, which seems most likely, they can beat him with a Chinaman, or even a Republican...