Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reasons that Americans will have for being thankful on Thanksgiving Day, 1935 (according to Presidential proclamation ): 1) "More and more of our people understand and seek the greater good of the greater number." 2) "Selfish purpose of personal gain at, our neighbor's loss, less and less asserts itself." 3) "Peace at home is strengthened by a growing willingness to common counsel." 4) "Our peace with other nations continues through recognition of our own peaceful purpose...
...shipped to the U. S. Wearing fur cap, fur-lined jacket and high boots, he joyously scrutinized the Kremlin, bemoaned the loss of his Bible. Said he: "I wasn't much more than a skeleton when the Russians picked me up. ... I couldn't make them understand what I was after, but they treated me all right. I didn't have to do a lick of work [Accepting a cigaret] I must have even backslid a little. . . . I'm so happy about going home that I feel like a coon in a watermelon patch...
...impolite to mention their own names, always waited for someone else to identify them. When a host offered his guests food, he first apologized that it was not fit to eat. They believed that human beings could be trusted in all relationships except the sexual, consequently could not understand ideas of faithful marriages. Hunters exchanged wives freely, often committed adultery, but never without asking permission of the husband. Husbands were also amused and puzzled when white sailors sneaked around their igloos, for they considered themselves honored if other men desired their wives. These frigid Puritans, however, roundly condemned women...
...truly the Greeks' passion. Like the old Athenian ostracisms concerning Aristides and Themistocles we have watched Venizelos at one time exalted and now cast out; and again there is George II on his way to a country which put him into exile not so many years ago. To understand this Greek temperment, to understand much of modern philosophical discourse Aristotle is indispensable...
When Farleyism, Tugwellism, Huey-Longism, Radicalism, and plain lying Insincerity are added to the list of Rooseveltian activities, it is hard to understand how the New Deal can still keep the wool over the eyes of our still esteemed contemporary...