Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thelma got to be fere (friendly) with the stranger, with his white hands and winning ways: almost consented to marry him. But she could not understand why he employed Lum Morgan. Chad, once deputy sheriff, had jailed Lum's son. Lum had recently shot at Chad, mistaking him for a rabbit. Clayton found Lum useful around the mines, continued to employ him. Lum thought that this meant that Clayton wanted him to take another shot at Chad, mistake him for a barn door...
...tourist being accosted in Paris by a smirking obscene-postcard-vendor; the caption is "Feelthy pictures?" No fly-by-night hawker of crude pornography, sexy Artist Arno accosts his public in broad daylight, through the pages of the New Yorker. Many an old-fashioned person would not understand Arno's allusions but would consider them "feelthy" if he did. One prominent English bookseller was so shocked by the English edition of Peter Arno drawings (Peter Arno's Parade) that he refused to sell the book. But Peter Arno's Circus is not nearly so crude as The Stag...
...ability to view Renaissance literature not as the unrelated work of several nations, but as a genuine artistic unity, is invaluable to the student. One cannot understand, for instance, the remarkable development in English drama and poetry during the sixteenth century without taking into account the influence of contemporary continental movements. Other phases of Renaissance literature are likewise interdependent. A full course, conducted by a competent authority, is the only way of making that understanding possible. Otherwise students of the period will have to rely on courses which straddle the field without covering...
...only now that people are beginning to understand the Moratorium which was sprung on an unwitting public a few months ago. At that time all the world thought that President Hoover had by a stroke of genius ended the Depression. The word Moratorium was a magic spell on the lips of everyone. Prosperity was soon mysteriously to return, although no one had any idea how it was going to be brought about...
Thse who want to understand the Church from which our times are largely sprung and who want to study one of the most powerful spiritual forces even to this day should try to see the Virgin of Guadaloupe as the Mexican Indian sees...