Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nominee Hoover had not yet said flatly that he favored Federal operation. The World laughed at the Scripps-Howard chain-papers and called the Hoover postscripts "shadow-boxing." Vexed but honest, the chain-papers admitted that the Hoover candor had not been perfect. They said: "It is difficult to understand why Hoover didn't say he was for government ownership and government operation of Muscle Shoals, or either or neither, instead of saying something else, then pointing to it and saying further, 'that means Muscle Shoals'; then, two days later, interpreting what he meant by "that...
...immensely difficult thing to understand about such a Barnum harvest is the faith that guides college graduates year and again to succumb to a few whispered words and a brandished engraving. As traditionally gun-shy as the individual is who can afford fifty dollars for an hour's entertainment, the "con" men, the street-corner shysters, the alley speculators find him feeble when excluded by a Stadium wall. A trite fiction hoods a pillar of State Street. A hurried phrase woos a yellow back from a bond salesman. The racket flourishes as the bay tree...
Just think of how the grown-ups in the dean's office must feel. They builded better than they knew when they selected as proctors individuals young enough to understand the child mind. The day may still be saved, however, if the idea is carried far enough. Incase the proctor's committee is at its wit's end, it may be well to offer a few suggestions. The writing-out idea is a good one especially as it may keep the proctors out of harms way correcting papers. After mid-years the stint will probably have to be extended...
...episode referred to by the Edmund Duffy caricature was when Nominee Curtis was heckled at Spencer, Iowa (TIME, Oct. 1). The quotation as given by Duffy is inaccurate. Nominee Curtis, vexed by questions about something he had already explained, cried: "I guess you are too dumb to understand...
...Harry Trotter, who had a good job as foreman in Pape's lumberyard, was determined everybody should understand he loved his wife. . . . Coming home from the yard at half past five o'clock Harry smelled a stew cooking as he climbed the stair of the duplex house, a dish he liked, and Vera cooked it with small round new potatoes, oodles of onions, peppers, spices...