Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While it is very easy to understand why France and the Little Entente should assume this immovable attitude, and while any other nation in similar circumstances might do exactly the same thing, still it demonstrates a decided inability on their part to read the signs of the times. They opposed the Austrian-German Customs Union; yet that will surely come eventually, if it is not already existent in fact. They oppose German equality; yet no nation as strong as Germany can permanently be regarded as inferior. The coat cut in 1918 is no longer in fashion. Economic and political forces...
...have "set to music" a great deal of the best poetry of Villon and Cavalcanti with the intention of getting it out of books and to the consumer or recipient. When I can sit in the electrician's kitchen in Rapallo and hear the words (I mean understand which word is which not merely hear a blurr of melodious noise) of Maitland. Marquesita, Ferrari and R. Collignon singing Villon's poems in London I have done more than when I wrote a book about past literature...
...mention how this "wily Mongol above whose small craggy kingdom the flight took place, did not want Britishers taking too many pictures over his head." This is a picture of the Maharaja Sir Chandra Shem Shur Jang Bahada Rana who died some five years ago. It is hard to understand how your reporter got into communication with him since his ashes have long been scattered on the water of the Holy River Bagmota at the famous Pashphati Shrine...
...Denmark & Iceland* was assigned Ruth Bryan Owen, eldest daughter of the late Great Commoner Bryan, with the distinction of being the first woman in U. S. diplomatic history to attain ministerial rank. Joyfully asked the Copenhagen Press: "Who could understand us better than Denmark's girl friend?"-a reference to the fact that in 1931 Mrs. Owen & family toured that country with a Curtis Aerocar (a two-wheeled trailer containing a kitchenet and four bunks). Madam Minister Owen, who lost her Florida seat in the House March 4. promptly revealed that she had found some Danish ancestors who arrived...
...Washington. Supervisor Sheehan said: "This young man got in with a crowd at Princeton that thought he had a great deal of money. He had only what I sent him . . . which was little enough, I can tell you." Said Dean Gauss: "The Prince was an oriental. He did not understand American ways." Later: "Any report that Mr. Sukhavasti was dismissed from Princeton is not true. Princeton had nothing but the friendliest feeling for him when he withdrew...