Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From far and wide the delegates had gathered. The slogan of the convention was GOODWILL, a word which had been thought up by the directors of the association. They knew that their fellow members understand as well as any merchants in the U. S. the meaning of that fine phrase, and the dry-goods men, as is their wont, responded heartily. Many were the delighted slaps and winks, the chewed cigars, the roguish stories passed from lip to lip amid shouts of, "Brother, you surely made a sale with that one" . . . "Let me tell...
...manner so highly normal and idiotic that one comes to forget sooner or later that he is acting at all. Truth to tell, it is as if you and I were up there on the stage, trying desperately to cope with a lot of things which we do not understand. And so, sooner or later, Mr. Hodge obtains our sympathy, and our interest as well. We must acknowledge his powers of persuasion whether they be those of an actor or a demi...
...student head-waiter should be appointed, preferably an upperclassman of some standing and experience, who will be able to understand and to handle properly the men under him, and who will be able to voice the complaints of the waiters to the proper authorities...
...Ward hotly denied. They reported a conversation. Baker Ward had been told he would get no backing from Wall Street for a corporation that might not pay common-stock dividends. "I need no Wall Street backing." Friends had deprecated the philanthropic clauses. "You men don't seem to understand that I have so much money I don't want any more. I want to give it away and do it in such a fashion that I won't be eternally talked about...
News, like art, has never been adequately defined. Some understand it as the graphic record of a current event which is 1) unusual or 2) important. If a corporation president resigns his directorships to accept a job as bus boy, if a senator refuses to make a speech at a public dinner, if a revenue agent stops the sale of liquor ? that is news. Such news may be presented in as entertaining a fashion as possible. But there is another kind of news ? a narrative of events which have often occurred but must be recorded as a matter...