Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...received a message from Papa tc Ferret to tell him to take us to a park where we could play on the grass but he would not understand us and took us down to the rivers band where there is nothing but stone. After a great deal of talking he took us to the Botanical gardens. At there we had a bad time at the first part but finelly we had a game...
...than its female counterpart. Either one, when dexterously transmuted into marble, could be regarded with an impersonal regard for its objective beauty. They, the sculptor himself, would not have regarded the performance of Greenville's citizens as obscene or grotesque; they, like the citizens, would have failed to understand...
...suppose you will think me forward for calling you by your first name," wrote a lady to Andy Cohen, Giant's second baseman, "but ... I understand you are Jewish and single ... if you would care to meet a brunette . . . Anyway drop me a little note and maybe I will send you my . . ." "Yeah, I get hundreds of them," said Second-baseman Cohen...
...convinced that Professor Rollins does not understand the spirit and "essence" of poetry. When one has glanced through several of the volumes Professor Rollins had edited, this statement appears even more absurd and ridiculous than the later statement about "novels, chronology, and similar bricks and mortar of literature". Neither of these statements is any more worthy of serious comment than the "skillibooch . . . gmmk" of a baby-or the braying of an ass. Such noises speak for themselves-certain vibrations have issued forth from a cavity into the surrounding atmosphere causing a meaningless noise at which we must either laugh...
...France-who at about that time was nibbling his pen in Paris over an answer to Secretary Kellogg's last note-that the U. S. will not consider any military alliance to prevent war, but only a peaceful compact, and that the U. S. does not yet understand how any nation's membership in the League of Nations prevents it from forswearing war with any and all nations...