Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...film the situation was different. Here an actor lived out the part symbolized by the "I" in the book. Thus in the film it was much more the German soldier than the war as related by any participator. With this in mind, then, it is not hard to understand the annoyance of anybody who experienced the War from the German side, at seeing a representation of a perhaps distortedly realistic and gruesome version of the war, stripped of any spark of heroism or glamor, pass as the version typical to all German soldiers. With the film they felt Remarque ceased...
...girl in their neighborhood. One of them wins her in spite of complications caused by a bully-boy who gets possession of a key to her apartment. The cast is not famous (Albert Frejean, Edmond Greville, Pola Illery), but they act so well that spectators do not have to understand French to follow the story. Best shot : the singer stimulating a crowd to sing while both men peddle their music in the street...
...corner Jack Sharkey, working as second, poured advice into his ear: "Keep him out with your left. He don't know nothing." Baer, it is true, knows little about boxing, but his blows recently killed Frankie Campbell in California (TIME, Sept. 15). At times no one could understand what was holding Schaaf up, at other times Schaaf, cooler, more experienced, made Baer ludicrously thrash the air. After ten rounds of awkward and exciting mauling. the judges decided that Schaaf had the edge. Baer, though the loser, fought so willingly that he may be given other and better chances...
This is statement goes on to say that the machine age has crowded into our big cities numbers of people of alien birth lacking educational advantages, who therefore find it impossible to understand the numerous complicated laws which the age makes necessary. In the interests of democracy Legal Aid services have been developed throughout the country, that these people may have the same opportunities for learning their legal rights and obtaining justice as their more wealthy fellow-citizens...
...open book: he who stands still may read. "It takes several months to appreciate the damply diffused grandeur of London; it needs a few weeks to catch the dry charm of Paris; but let yourself be taken to the middle of Brooklyn Bridge at dusk and you will understand New York in 15 seconds...