Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mysterious trips to Washington followed, whispered conferences at the huge Interior Department Building-things Jackson did not try to understand. More papers were signed and everybody seemed delighted, particularly Mrs. Barnett and her Kansas friends...
Jokes. Lawyer Miller mentioned a painter named Garbo, suggested a relationship with Cinemactress Greta Garbo. Sir Joseph failed to understand. When Sir Joseph indicated the contours of the painted bosom Lawyer Miller jocosely murmured: "We will not go below the beads." Lawyer Miller denied perceiving certain innuendoes of color and form in the Louvre Belle. "If I were with you, you would see it," gibed Sir Joseph. When Sir Joseph was asked if he belonged to the French society called Friends of the Louvre he sighed and said: "I don't know. I shall have to ask my secretary...
Round 15. Col. Stewart, piqued, in Chicago, shot back to Mr. Rockefeller Sr. a letter: "I could have understood the silence of a father under the circumstances. I cannot understand your making this statement, unless you have been deliberately misinformed...
...Were given to understand that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin will petition the Crown to dissolve the House of Commons on May 24, and plans to hold a General Election on Thursday, June...
...trains its cannons against the wets. It prints High-and-dry editorials such as the following: "The Christian Herald is in this Prohibition fight to the finish. . . . The minds of America's younger generation need to be carried back to pre-Prohibition days to insure that they will understand the transformation which the Eighteenth Amendment has wrought." Editor High pays $5 to anyone who will write a brief authentic article revealing the degradation of drunkenness, the benison of Prohibition...