Word: reasonably
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Before the time of Wagner, the use of foreign languages in grand opera had a raison d'etre in the musical quality of French and Italian; but no one would insist that the gutteral muttering of Teutonic heroes are more melodious than a reasonably good English version. There is really no reason for thinking it plebeian to enjoy understanding the words of an opera; the granting of this privilege is a type of one hundred percentism that has value...
British correspondents cabled that the beings bombed were "only animals." Cows had been mangled in humane preference to mangling their tribesmen owners. Reason : some of the tribesmen were suspected of murdering recently British District Commander Captain Ferguson. Result: 34 chiefs of the Lau tribe surrendered, last week, to a small British land force. The chiefs, cowed, were then obliged to watch while British bombers completely demolished their sacred shrine, the Pyramid of Dengkur, long a place of idolatrous, witch-doctoring worship...
Naturally observers sought for a "real reason" behind Laborite MacDonald's righteous wrath. They found it in an editorial in the Laborite Daily Herald which observed: "The "greater portion of the readers of the evening papers are members of the working class, and if the Rothermere scheme is successful, the new papers will add to the copious stream of misrepresentation of the Labor movement which issues daily from the capitalist newspapers...
Typically the chief pro-German plotters in Alsace-Lorraine are led by Roman Catholic priests like the Abbé Haegy. Reason: the Imperial German Government deliberately founded and fostered Catholic schools throughout Alsace in which youths were carefully trained up in zeal for Rome and Germany and in detestation of France which has disestablished the Roman Catholic Church...
...seven years Cattlewoman Truskett has tried to achieve a membership in the Kansas City Livestock Exchange. Refused again & again, she alleges the reason to be that she is a woman and complains that exchange members have secretly forced cattle shippers to stop selling through her. She traded brusque stockyard words with them. Result: "One of them snapped his fingers in my face." Outraged, she last week sued the exchange directors & officers (30 men) for violation of a state law which provides that anyone may hold a membership in the Exchange. The defendants, unperturbed, informed newsmen that two women were...