Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...UNDERSTAND?Montague Glass ?Doubleday, Page ($2.00). Since Abie's Irish Rose stole his long-rumbling thunder, not much has been seen or heard of the author of Potash and Perlmutter. Somehow, the Jews presented in Y'Understand (eight short stories) seem modernized, less Semitic than their forerunners. Perhaps that is mere geography: "Blood Is Redder Than Water" (mistaken identity in a fight over women and a will) transpires at Rockaway Beach, L. I.; "Cousins of Convenience" (a comedy of clothes) hints at the annual hegira to Florida; "Never Begin with Lions" (cinema tribulations) is in Los Angeles...
...easy to understand why Henry Cabot Lodge disagreed so violently with Mr. Wilson. That two men of such opposite temperaments and points of view should differ was only natural. But one did not expect from the pen of a man so well-educated and of such estimable social position as was the late senator the sustained innuendos and invectives that appear in this posthumous work. Instead of correcting the world's opinion of Woodrow Wilson's character, as he thought he was doing, Mr. Lodge has left a monument that will serve to lessen the world's appreciation of himself...
...charge ever brought against Goethe is less well founded than the charge of irreligion. The truth is that Goethe is the most religious of modern poets. To be sure, if you understand by religion merely the acceptance of the dogmas, Goethe was not religious, for he did not accept dogmas. Like Jacob of old he wrestled with the Lord...
...hard to understand how any one reading Goethe could ever get the idea that he had a low conception of woman. In his judgment of women he is sometimes critical, but never flippant. On the whole a profound respect of woman pervades his works...
Sirs : I suppose it would be a very nearly impossible thing for TIME, or any other publication, to adhere at all times to "just news." But as I understand it, that is, supposed to be TIME'S business. However, TIME sometimes publishes statements as news that are anything but news. In your issue of Sept. 28, Page 30, Column 2, you say that a contemporary of yours, The Independent, is "a very dull and amateurish sheet indeed." This isn't news; it is simply . . . opinion . . . The present writer has for several years been a reader of The Independent...