Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understand now that there is some serious swearing to be done, but that will take place in the Mayor's office. Will all those gentlemen who have so kindly and patriotically consented to assist the new administration make their way to the floor below...
...Betting on horse races." Major Beith remarked, "is conducted in England in much the same fashion as bootlegging in America. When you want to lay a wage on a horse you say 'carnation' or 'hollyhock' to indicate 'five pounds' or 'ten pounds' just as in America I understand one says 'orchestra' or 'balcony' when one is ordering spiritual refreshment from a bootlegger...
...Kingdom of Christ if they wish their power to remain unimpaired, and their countries to prosper and progress. If princes and legitimately elected magistrates, in fact, were convinced that they command not in their own right but by the mandate of the Divine King it is easy to understand what sacred use they would make of their authority...
...urbane and well slicked Manhattan mob twittered about the famed Anderson Galleries last week and endeavored to understand the mystic symbolism hidden in the 21 large mural paintings and eight pieces of sculpture there on show. Strange forms of a significance remindful of the tortuous ideas in Novelist James Branch Cabell's Jurgen revealed themselves. Famed Etcher Joseph Pennell was loud in his praise of their originality. Much interest centred about a bust of the famed Spanish Singer Raquel Meller...
...Europe is more appreciative of art. The people there know more about it and understand what an artist is trying to do. ... It is the women of America who have all the culture. The men make the money and enable the women to acquire the culture, but they neglect it themselves. And they need grace and politeness and serenity. Serenity is the last word in culture and it is not found in America. It is such omissions that make us look so bad abroad...