Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Violent Children. The children of the strikers thoroughly enjoy the industrial situation: they get sufficient free food, they scurry to an occasional riot, they join but do not understand the Young Pioneers of America (Communist organization), they frolic at the game of "Strikers and Scabs" in the Victory Playground. This gentle pastime requires baseball bats, assorted clubs, rocks, tin cans, etc. The Strikers, with a tough 13-year-old in the role of "Hero" Albert Weisbord exhorting them to be brave, meet the Scabs or Cossacks (representing the police) in realistic Armageddon. The Strikers are always supposed...
Plenty of newspapers so called are glad to get rid of their subject even though their readers don't understand a word they print...
General Nobile (still excited, in Pittsburgh): "It is so strange, I do not understand. All Ellsworth did was to give money for the flight. It was I, Nobile, who designed the Norge; it was I, Nobile, who commanded it; it was I, Nobile, who was responsible for its success. Without me the flight would have been impossible! . . . Lincoln Ellsworth was just a passenger. . . . He was a nice passenger, but that...
...could have hindered Hero de Beaujolais' success, save the one thing that did, a woman. Mary Vanbrugh, U. S. A., came under his protection during a minor massacre that occurred just at a moment when he was supposed to keep alive himself at all costs. She refused to understand why Duty compelled him to leave the disturbed town, sacrifice his men and sneak down through the desert to see some powerful sheiks. He had to take her along. He fell in love with her. And then of course, when it was a question between her honor and his exalted...
...painted ladies and yel- low-collared gentlemen are nobly in love with each other, or that certain drawing-room manners, courageous leaps and skillful rescues represent slices from real life, simply by the flicker of light through celluloid, then surely children can be made to believe, remember and perhaps understand certain other human activities and natural phenomena of a more educational nature...