Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Item: H. R. H. declared: "There is no harm in playing cards for money in itself. . . . Gambling, as I understand the word, is hateful...
...guilty soldier was soon seized. He confessed in a daze of fear, kept murmuring, "I cannot understand how El Gallo [The Rooster] escaped." To persons more familiar with the presidential plumbing, explanation was easy. In providing a sumptuous bath for His Excellency's son-in-law, the plumbers had switched over the President's former ventilation pipe to ventilate the Obregons...
...Frederick March's rise as an actor of no mean significance has been most pleasant. He is one of the men of the screen who can say "I love you" and "Oh, but you don't understand" with a certain amount of restraint that assures you that you are not listening to someone with mythological attributes. He has acquired a certain savoir faire which makes for a restful enjoyment of his performance...
...talkies, to their credit, have brought French, German and other languages to the Boston screen without the stigma of being educational." Since they are essentially pictures and must depend largely for their success on movement and pantomime, one can ordinarily understand what is going on even though the spoken words are unintelligible. Music, of course, is a universal language and a dictionary need not be thumbed when the hero is singing a love song. The admission prices, moreover, are usually so modest that you can afford to take a chance on being delighted or bored. But, after all, what Boston...
...place in the world nitrogen industry is typical of its attitude. It would have none of the recent Nitrogen Cartel by which Germany and the united producers of Chile endeavored to stabilize the industry (TIME, Aug. 18, FORTUNE, October). It remained independent, silent, giving no quarter, asking none. To understand Allied's secrecy, Allied's independence, one need only consider the big Allied nitrogen fixation plant at Hopewell, Va. It is said that even Mr. Weber has never visited this plant to which, certainly, no other director has ever been. Only five men are credited with being able...