Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wants to understand the game of football, assuming that he cannot be a player himself, he had better go to see a football game rather than read a volume about football and look at photographs of great football games or players. In like manner we believe that if a man is to have a real enthusiasm about painting, he must see great paintings. It is not sufficient to read books about them and study the subject of art wholly by means of photographic reproduction. It has certainly been our experience here that as we get more and better pictures...
Said he: "A man should be the judge of the guests of his own house and it is not only irregular but impertinent for others to seek admission. No offence can possibly be taken by Japan if this is done in a manly way for reasons which she will understand. She excludes the Chinese and Koreans from Japan, although they are racially not very divergent...
...gushing amours to the artist's sister. Romantic, she believes his lovemaking goes no further than moonlight and roses; but a kiss he snatches at a midnight rendezvous opens her eyes. She considers him carnally voluptuous. Then a threatened operation for the vapid mother makes this flapper understand how precious Mother and her fogey ideas really are. Bathos...
When the reporter inquired about the particular phase of the athletic equipment he thought especially attractive. Mr. Affleck replied, "I am very enthusiastic about the equipment for aquatics, for I understand it is the most complete in the country. There is an enthusiasm here for rowing which I have not seen duplicated by any college in the country. Then, too, squash is a form of exercise which interests an unusually large number of men in the University, and I consider it one of the best forms of intensive exercise. Your equipments remarkably complete...
Naturally enough, a love story ensues in which this curious idealist of the underworld plays opposite the shopgirl, who dimly feels something beyond the flesh, but who can understand clearly only when the flesh is speaking. They quarrel because she cannot comprehend his idealism. They separate. They rejoin again, and for a while it seems as if her way of living triumphs. But in the end it is Carley's ideal that wins. And when he is sent to an insane asylum as a criminal paranoic it is indicated that she understands his attitude. At any rate, she agrees...