Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They would be disappointed if President Coolidge did not understand why Columbus said: "The most beautiful land that human eyes have ever seen...
...David grew up in Centralia he began more and more to understand the broad tolerance, the bitter and sympathetic scepticism that, had they been alloyed with ambition, would have made his brother Henry great as well as splendid. David, possessing that ambition, strengthened it upon his brother's wisdom. He looked at the World War with the wise critical eyes of early adolescence; he watched the branches of his family twist and struggle along trellises of suffering and achievement. He worked in the fields of the great farm, fell in love with Dora Tarkington, filled his mind with knowledge...
Perhaps the remarks of Secretary Wilbur, and the impersonal attitude of the naval officers, were unfortunate at a time when the public was torturing itself with the details of the men's suffering. But it is hard for the civilian to understand the way the cold, indeed, but efficient way the military machine functions at a time like this. If the men had foundered at sea in a tramp steamor, the event would not have received half a column. But because it was dramatic, and occurred in a submarine, it was a perfect opportunity for subjective citizens and obscure congressmen...
Sirs: I have, I hope, as much common sense and rational balance as the average man; and I cannot understand why you choose to compliment Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin on the asserted ground that his statements often "have power" because they are as "simple and transparently sincere" as the scriptural text you quote. (TIME, Dec. 26, 1927).* To illustrate my meaning, suppose that a man says with absolute simplicity and sincerity: "Do not smoke tobacco." In that statement there is no power; but there is power in the statement: "Go and sin no more." Yet I defy anyone to prove...
...finest of the former are more valuable than the mediocre of the latter. The Ugly Duchess is one of these few. It is a novel, not a trick; in the life of the ugly duchess is written the life of all women who are ugly and who understand beauty...