Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plainly in plain hotels, arises daily at 7 a. m., dislikes to practice. Of her voice, Soprano Sack says: "Every manager, everywhere I go, wants me to give the public my high notes. Very well, I give them. But I give them as a kind of extra present. Please understand, I am a normal singer. ... I refuse to transpose anything to display my high notes. I insist on singing in the original...
...muffling" a Grand Jury investigation of Philadelphia vice ordered by Socialite Judge Curtis Bok, who is also up for reelection. Ordered to explain to the Grand Jury what he meant by "muffling," Mr. Cooke last week took the witness stand, floundered: "Well, the word-muffled-as I understand it, is generally applied to drums. In other words, you have heard of a muffled drum The muffling . . . simply insulates the drum from the outside influences which in that case would be the drumsticks." Judge Bok calmly dismissed the charges. Crackled Mayor Wilson: "... A complete repudiation of the . . . innuendos made...
...horoes on Soldiers Field on Saturday were not dressed in football togs. Many of them wore silk stockings, ridiculous footwear, and feathered hats and got thoroughly drenched watching a game they probably didn't understand. No greater love bath woman than this. As a visiting California journalist remarked: "These New England women certainly can take it--the suckers...
...Argenteuil near Paris, received a good technical training at several private art academies. About 1907 Braque and Picasso began to do geometric abstractions from nature and 'Picasso enjoyed calling Braque his "cher maitre." Later Picasso remarked that Braque and James Joyce were the "incomprehensibles whom anyone could understand." In the War Braque served as a lieutenant of infantry, was severely wounded, won the Croix de Guerre. Since the War, while his good friend Picasso has leaped from style to style with unparalleled agility, Georges Braque has gone on trying steadfastly, time after time, to derive from impermanent objects...
...play in London in 1901. Accompanying the pictures and play bills of this dramatist is an article by a present day London critic, James Agate. Agate points out that the acting of Benson in "Richard II" was six times better than that of Evans. He gives us to understand that the current matinee favorite develops only a one-sided picture of Richard while Benson brought out the full meaning behind the weakling king...