Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Avco's stockholders, when they meet next week at Wilmington, will understand that the commissioning of Engineer Coburn does not signify sickness but progress in the corporation. He is not only to adjust but to amplify Avco's manufacturing. Plans include new giant seaplanes, a new line of motors...
Convinced that much musical hypocrisy exists among our symphonic and concert audiences who, impressed by the eminence of the artists, claim to appreciate what they neither enjoy nor understand, I propose a test. Let Artist Kreisler seat himself, shabbily disguised, on a camp stool at a busy sidewalk corner. A " Blind" sign above his dark glasses, let him draw his magic bow, and play, as only he can play it, the Caprice Viennois. How many, think you, of his applauding audience, as they hurried by, would pause longer than to jangle a few pennies into the tin cup strapped...
...cannot get good work out of poorly paid men. ... It is astonishing how hard it is for some minds to understand it. It took about ten years in the U. S., but it is now generally received as part of the practical science of business." Parenthetically Mr. Ford interjected: "It has been said that in England we employ only teetotalers. That is not true, but we insist on sobriety. We can only pay good wages to sober workmen...
...Manhattan, because John showed no talent for the family profession of acting, wanted instead to" be an artist. He went to the Art Student's League only once and worried about what his father would say when he heard about it. Maurice Barrymore said: "I can't understand how you happened to go once." When he made his first stage appearance as Max in a Chicago performance of Magda he was mentioned by one reviewer who said: "Barrymore walked about the stage as if he had been all dressed up and then forgotten." Considering himself a histrionic failure...
Asked how he dared ring bells in such a fashion, Guido Francveschini jumped up, explained that his arms had grown tired. Said he: "I really don't know why I am ringing the bells. No one seems to understand me. I am a devout man and believe in God. Bells were made to ring-to ring forever. When I was a child it used to make me very happy to hear the bells ringing on Sunday...