Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...used to sing "Where the River Shannon Flows" as he beat rugs in the back yard. They are pretty and melodious, but while not holding them to be directly the cause of the War, it is no libel to say that one has only to hear them to understand the why of jazz...
...Spanish War come to mind all the same. The gags are there to laugh at and undoubtedly present all the requisites of humor. At least they did thirty years ago. Yet if this is what the nineties found the height of the entertaining, it is not difficult to understand why the parents of today find it so hard to enjoy the ideas of the "present generation". But another thirty years and perhaps even the "Didn't-I-see-you-in-Buffalo" joke may have seen its best days...
...economy, for instance?he looks out at you from under extraordinarily heavy eyebrows, and his eyes snap and his brows twitch. He buries superficial crudities under a river of picturesque language, which flows from a mountain of facts. Suddenly, you do think that he's the Governor, and you understand how it is that in the end he 'gets...
...executed with a sure, skilful hand, with an ever-fresh touch, unhampered by schooling. Said Herbert Wafd: "But even if a man does ugly Negroes and knows what he is doing and manages to get his soul into it, there will some day come along the men who understand...
...education at far less than cost. For this they should be, and undoubtedly are, deeply grateful. It is also generally recognized that the student body as a whole obeys rules laid down by the authorities of the University. And yet the desirability of one such rule is hard to understand...