Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without this experience, he may never appreciate the excitement that pervades a fan at the inviolability of Warner Oland's person. He may never understand the smug smiles which accompany the first three or four attempts on the detective's life. He may never grasp the delight at the inevitable final threat, appalling as it always is. For we fans know that Charlie has only covered three or four cities in the world. This time it is Shanghai and a dope ring...
...tragedy, one must revert to the Secret Treaties of London in 1915, and the failure of Britain and France in 1919 to live up to their promises. The second act took place in Rome, the first week of this year, when M. Laval, either intentionally or unintentionally, let Mussolini understand that France would not intervene in an Italian campaign against Ethiopia. The third act, of longer duration, is spread over the nine months of this year, and is marked by the consistent failure of the Powers to realize that Mussolini has meant business all along, and that...
...issue lives up to the self-advice of its editorial. There seems a sincere interest in "printing what the literary undergraduate has to say"; if there was any surrealistic or communistic bosh, it must have been concealed in the two or three poems and stories which we did not understand; without mentioning the inevitable and necessary (for purposes of contrast) dullnesses, the articles were stimulating without being, as the editorial feared, offensive...
That is not like him. These walls have sheltered him through many a cold night; for a mere nothing too. They understand each other. Cold at times, yes; but then again the sun rises to the old Tower first before lighting the world below. And that old chair is the Vagabond's true friend and was his father's father's friend. Live in a House and have the maid change and clean and handle the furniture at will? Friends need a friend's care. The Vagabond stays! And this coat: give up a garment which has served so well...
...satisfy those who are content with a gentleman's knowledge of the subject, and the volumes are also handy as ready references for those quotes which make theses sound erudite. The introductions have been written carefully and cover, however briefly, all the biographical and psychological background necessary to understand the work of the authors...