Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People who lack music often complain that music lacks humor. Such people never grasp witty music, the intentioned epigrams of Ravel and Scriabine, of that deft and revered knight, Sir Arthur Sullivan. They can understand performers who make fun of serious music, burlesquing well-known classics, but how performers can, without irreverence, have fun with music these complainers cannot see. Few such gentry were in the Cleveland audience which last week heard a drunken Russian cab driver conduct the Volga boat-song. Nicolai Sokolov, Cleveland Orchestra conductor, famed interpreter of the Russians, had just directed his orchestra through...
...writing either to praise or blame TIME, but merely to ask your aid. I examine the wrapper of my copy carefully each week, and I am distressed to note that the expiration date thereon has not yet been advanced to include 1927. This embarrasses me. I am given to understand that I have been brought up genteel, and somehow I can't persuade myself that it would be quite genteel to call the situation baldly to my friend's attention. Here you can help me. If you will print this letter in TIME-anywhere in TIME-he will...
...never could understand the line Oswald has taken. He was born with a gold spoon in his mouth-it cost a ?100 doctor fee to bring him into the world. He has lived on the fat of the land and never did a day's labor in his life. He had the best education and money was spent on him galore. If he and his wife want to go in for labor why don't they do a bit of work themselves or why doesn't Lady Cynthia sell her pearls for the Smethwick poor...
...creatures struggling to exist, acquire, mate and reproduce. He "sees through" to the essential, motile miracle of living?or something like that; neither he nor Miss Gale can quite express it. His wife sends for an alienist. He rushes off to Alia Locksley, the waiting one, hoping she will understand his prodigious discovery. But she is only sex-hungry. She sends for the same alienist. So Bernard Mead returns to Pauquette, grimly reflecting that he has a few years left in which to study out his new transcendental existence alone...
...handsome fugitive convict whom Monica "understands" is, of course, proved innocent. Nor does she more than "understand" him, and he her, though other possibilities, and a deep-dyed hydraulic. company villain, stalking various tracts of real estate, suffice to complicate the prospects of Hero Anthony Garland, cultivated consumptive, until the last paragraph, where man and woman throb together on a mountain beholding the usual "promise of another...