Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short prefatory note to the new edition of Miss Wurdemann's Bright Ambush. . . . Such as that Mr. Auslander is "a lyric, not to say a complaining, poet" is to me an entirely uncalled-for, not to say an utterly unmeaning line. I could cite complaint, as your critic understands the term-or appears to understand it-in every fine poet since and including Shakespeare. Any adverse comment on existence might be so cited as a "complaint." The "complaint" in Dante and in Milton must indeed be enormous! The whole thing is laughable, if it were not so unjust...
...drawn to satisfy the Court, an act like the Federal Trade Commission Act. The question of delegated authority is not insurmountable but the Supreme Court's definition of interstate commerce has really important implications. Why are so many of these telegrams futile? Because people don't understand the implications of the Court's decision. The Court has practically gone back to the old Knight case of 1885 which limited "interstate commerce" to goods in transit. Since then, the Court has made the interstate commerce clause apply to a great many things not only in transit but affecting...
...told it was too early to make a call. He then drove to a filling station, called the Weyerhaeuser home in Tacoma, 20 miles away. No one answered. At last, after the filling station man had shut off his noisy air compressor, Farmer Bonifas made the police of Tacoma understand that he had on his hands the most sought-after person in the U. S. What should he do with him? Bring him home at once, barked the frantic police. Meantime, in the automobile outside, George heard newsboys yelling that his uncle had paid his kidnappers $200,000 night before...
...Arts must show that he can talk constructively on something. Certainly critical comment on his subject such as essays, books, reviews, etc., will keep him alive to his subject, not research in the true sense of the term. The difference between this and the science standard is difficult to understand, but fundamental...
...there are times when the luminous patios of the Agua Caliente Hotel, which are used for all exteriors, give the picture the air of an animated resort poster, this impression is corrected by an imperfectly subdued tendency to affront Mexico by portraying it as a country whose people understand English only when they are bribed and whose music exists solely to goad listeners into buying silence. In Caliente is dull only in its more expensive moments. Even Busby Berkeley could not do much with Mexican dance effects that has not already been done and probably the most devastating thing...