Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again scored a triumph with his play. In many ways it is the most interesting comedy the Cercle Francais has yet produced and the annunciation was notably better than in last year's play, "Le Monde on Pon s'Ennule". Only the words of St. Michael were difficult to understand and he may be excused since he was forced to speak from very strained quarters, once from inside the fireplace and once from the interior of a sideboard
Colleen Moore found herself catapulted into fame some years ago on the strength of a pert little face and a spontaneity of manner which exactly typified flapperdom. Now that the flapper has gone, it would seem that Colleen's day is done. We understand that she is married now. She certainly acts like it in "We Moderns...
...realities of the affair lie in a realm of feeling of which the actors themselves were hardly aware, which the wisest doctor and the most discerning priest would need years to explore before they could half understand it. The attachment was a pitiable thing, the horrible confusion of a sexually uneducated boy and a socially uneducated girl with greed and social position and an uncertain racial standard and a kind of weird search for happiness. . . . Apparently his family lacked both sympathetic wisdom and practical judgment. But the lawyers were not emotionally involved. They could have kept their heads...
...Deacon. A benign and silver haired old sinner has been made the hero of this play. As played to perfection by Berton Churchill he will unquestionably be much loved of the masses. You understand, of course, he is not really and forever wicked...
...World Court has a distinct relation to the problem of peace, as I view it. Do not understand me to say that it has ever prevented a war, or that it ever will. That I do not know. I do not see how anyone can say, one way or another. It is perfectly true, as Mr. Borchard suggested, that the usual questions which the World Court may handle are not likely to be those which may lead to war. In the main, they will be legal questions about which nations will disagree, which may even contribute to friction, but which...