Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entry of the U. S. into the War, " L. G." said: " Just then that young Hercules of the West came striding along, fearlessly, dauntlessly, and took his stand here by the side of the Armies of France and of Great Britain. Do you know what that meant? You cannot understand it. I want to say what an old Allied Prime Minister thought at that moment." He stated that he wanted to see how things were done in America in a land unfettered by traditional hatreds?a land which " is able to build with both hands instead of having to hold...
...work. " I consider that the principal aim of my mission is to make the American people understand what Italy is and what are her aims and ideals. The necessity of this has been proved by recent events. Erroneous news and malevolent interpretations have been flashed all over the world. Generally speaking, we have had an acrimonious press. Diplomatic work is not very difficult or complicated in the U. S., especially when two Governments like ours deal in a frank and business-like...
...Critics. William Allen White: "To understand [the U. S. Senators] Brookhart, Shipstead, Magnus Johnson ... La Follette and to understand how this group of intensely practical, indomitable progressives is sure to dominate the politics of the middle western Mississippi Valley during this whole generation ? one must read The Hawkeye...
...first place you must understand that I am too ignorant of condi- tions in America to express any opinion on them: I have but just begun to collect opinions of Harvard University. And even in English universities, my experience has been such as to enable me to speak with authority of but one of them,--and that one naturally enough, is Oxford...
...knowledge that this master comedian will reappear for one of his nonpareil curtain-talks, and when he actually joins the unspeakable "Russian Vocal Quartet" for a few flourishes, he raises the roof perceptibly. The temptation is to write reams about Balieff; his explanation that since the audience did not understand Italian, "La Grande Opera Italiana" would have to be sung in Russian,-his laudable attempt to teach the Russian language in one lesson, for as he says, it is so easy that every child of six speaks it in Russia,-and his indescribably ludicrous facial expressions will become classic...