Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neville Chamberlain chose she could give Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's My Day a brisk run for its lineage. The wife of the Prime Minister observed early this month as she opened the London Sunday Times National Book Fair: ''I understand from the press that my chief occupation" is darning the Prime Minister's socks...
...hardly sufficient socks to keep me occupied, and I understand that his taste is not in socks but in umbrellas...
...also understand from certain sections of the press that my literary tastes are confined to cookery books and archeology...
...pictures a Rome badly decayed, ignoble Romans unable to understand what is happening. Rome has fallen but the Romans cannot believe it. The barbarians are running the world, but the Romans do not know it, dare not face it, cannot believe that for once they are just muddling along instead of muddling through...
...crack British steamship line. The worst of these was his marriage to a beautiful U. S. heiress, a friend of the woman to whom Spenlove tells the story. (Captain Remson's wife had been too corrupted, apparently, by the slack code of U. S. high society to understand an English gentleman.) Remson finally ended up in the South American jungle, where legend had it he had found gold mines. Actually his treasure trove was an ideal woman and ideal peace, manifesting "a character that seems to me likely to carry him through our times and on into better times...