Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Myra became a beautiful young woman, short, plump, like a dove in repose, in action very erect, vital, challenging. Her spirit and swift wit were of a sort that old John Driscoll could understand, "racy, and none too squeamish." He was probably proud of her the snowy night she left his house, penniless, after two years of intense, secret waiting, to marry the man whom she loved and he did not. He was certainly proud of her when, after willing his house to pale-handed nuns, founding a women's refuge" in Chicago and providing that Myra could always...
...power. So, in true Victorian fashion, he refuses to allow these poems to be published. Moderns will declare that he does not know so much about contemporary fashions in literature as do authors of this generation, that he does not realize the sacredness of advertising, that he does not understand the importance of royalties. This he would grant them. Yet the world may rejoice that he is great enough to overlook these petty trivialities while he keeps his eyes fastened on the ideal of literary...
...future is equally, if not more important. Those who, like me for instance, feel that the Nation has had its greatest growth, its greatest accomplishment, its greatest prestige under Republican administrations are anxious to see these traditions perpetuated. This can only be done if the young voters of today understand and believe in these principles and appreciate their obligation to vote. To this we are bending our efforts...
...where a word in the right ear will net a hundred thousand dollars or a new gymnasium." Intellectual "safety" was defined: "He must be devoid of all purely rational principles and ideas of any sort . . . cannot be a Roman Catholic, a Quaker, a Holy Roller. . . . Above all, he should understand how to befog issues wherein ideas perhaps lurk dangerously by raising and keeping raised a perfect dust storm of issues that really do not matter...
...since to know the whole oak one must be acquainted with the acorn, so, to understand the later literary works of the eighteenth century one must have at least an outlook over the earlier movements. Professor Howard in his course German 6, is going to speak on these earlier literary movements of the eighteenth century this morning at 11 o'clock, and any who desire may at that hour see one in the guise of a vagabond on his way to the Germanic Museum...