Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...central fact militating against Candidate Hoover is that many people cannot understand what he stands for. He is no forthright protagonist of an ideal or program. He puts forth no clear-cut political or social theory except a quiet "individualism," which leaves most individuals groping. Material wellbeing, comfort, order, efficiency in government and economy-these he stands for, but they are conditions, not ends. A technologist, he does not discuss ultimate purposes. In a society of temperate, industrious, unspeculative beavers, such a beaver-man would make an ideal King-beaver. But humans are different. People want Herbert Hoover to tell...
Then came another jolt for slippery Will H. Hays. In the mass of testimony, the Committee came upon a memorandum bearing minute pencil notations. A microscope revealed four names: "Weeks," "Andy," du Pont," "Butler." Two of these names the Committee could understand. In his testimony Mr. Hays had mentioned sending $25,000 of Sinclair's Liberty Bonds to the late John W. Weeks, at that time Secretary of War. Another $75,000 had gone to U. S. Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont, to meet a note due in Manhattan. Mr. Hays had not mentioned "Andy" or "Butler...
...Anderson and Dreiser and all the rest will fifty years hence be as unread as the Congressional Record. Several things are wrong with Anderson, to his mind. He is to obsessed with sex, and sex perversion. "Winesburg, Ohio" was saturated with people, ranging from the philosopher who does not understand his own sexual frustration and so is writing a book to show that all the world is Christ and is suffering on the Cross, to the hotel proprietor's wife who, after a life of scrubbed floors and emptied cuspidors, is soother in the arms of death by the kisses...
...Social intermixing is very desirable," declared Fairbank, "but the biological fusion of races only the future will determine. The negroes, just as the whites, have one civilization, the American civilization. There are no grounds for the prevalent race prejudice, based on economic conditions of past years, except failure to understand...
...sharp-eyed critics have warned George Godfrey that the trouble with demanding what he deserves is that he might get it. Last week in Los Angeles George Godfrey met squatty Paolino Uzcudun, Basque, who still has to bring an interpreter to the ring so that he can understand what the referee says. Forty-four pounds lighter than the black man, Paolino lost the decision in a ten round bout made up mostly of clinches...