Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Oliver Alden they made her finish last, the author and directors, and like him she doesn't really understand why she did so poorly in the end, and like him there was no reason for it all from what went before...
...really well-developed swing piece and those jazz critics will pan it right off. Why, they don't even understand it!" he said indignantly. The Duke holds that a fine swing tune can be interpreted in exactly the same way as classical music is delved into. He said, though, that it was too much a commercial thing. "They's a lot of money being made out of it." Used too much in an elementary form, too, he said...
...average ATHLETE. While the athlete puts all the time and energy of the development of the body, the Capitalists put all the time and energy of the development of their mind, of how to obtain, possess, and accumulate wealth. They smell like SKUNKS, and like Skunks they do not understand the reason why people do not like them...
...states, not only European, which have linked themselves with those which initiated the movement of recovery. There is no doubt, for example, that Japan is liberating herself from the parliamentary miasma which she acquired a few decades ago, and which today arrests her vital elan. We fully understand and justify this elan. The squeals of spinsters and the sermons of archbishops make us laugh...
...charge of organizing tue munitions industry, was chief counsel to the War Industries Board. Lawyer Perkins' speech was slangy. At a meeting of the Corporation, the late President Eliot once requested: "Will someone kindly translate Mr. Perkins' remarks into English so that I may understand them...