Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bother to define it. He is simply eaten up with a gigantic bitterness at a world which is given reason and at the same time irresistible fate, luck or a divinity that rips reason to ribbons. Werfel is annoyed because God has given him just enough sense to understand what an impotent fool he really is. This gloomy abstraction is woven into a play about a wealthy farmer's family to which was born a human monstrosity.* After 23 years of confinement it escaped and became the symbol of a revolt of the beggars. A grim and horribly concluded love...
...other day in a paper that when the word 'rubber' was mentioned, an Englishman's expression was like that of the cat caught by the empty cream jug or the empty canary cage. You will understand that the word 'rubber' does not produce that particular kind of satisfaction in my soul." He told of the ups and downs of rubber planting; told of hard times immediately following the War when "it was literally a case with many plantations of 'To be or not to be-aye, there's the rubber!'" He concluded...
...broad smile on the face of the Vice President." Senator Blease, whom able Democratic correspondent Frank R. Kent describes as "the supreme political patent-medicine man," was very frank in proclaiming his position : "Mr. President, something has been said about a filibuster. I do not know that I exactly understand what that word means, but if filibuster means to speak, or filibuster means to vote, I want to say right now that I would to GOD I had the power to stand here without eating a bite or taking a drink or sleeping a wink until 12 o'clock...
...though the author had originally written the poem for his own pleasure and had later altered it to suit the demands of a comie supplement. Why the Lampoon editors should insists that verses be "humorous" rather than possible and well-turned is more than we can understand...
...again justified the comment of a Monte Carlo croupier: "Man dieu! One can understand why the Americans do not love opera, if theirs are all like this!" But the "poppy ballet," and the "lily ballet," and the "melodies which flow along easily and attach themselves to the memory with pleasurable effects," were all applauded with "real hand-stinging claps...