Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said the Post Office Department's press representative: "There were three stars plainly visible on the photograph which we sent to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, but I understand they rumpled the general's coat . . . and thus hid one of the stars." Said the wearied Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing: "If there ought to be another star it is around on the back of the collar. You might try looking on the back of the stamp...
...such a bad lot: "At night, very late, there would come stealing faintly into the ha11 of the Embassy a sound which I am sure must have perplexed the [Spanish] guards at the gate. . . . Behind closed doors Mr. Ogilvie-Forbes was play-the bagpipes. He plays them, I understand, excellently. It always struck me that, if the Embassy should be attacked, our best defense would not be to gather in the hall, but to wait until Mr. Ogilvie-Forbes marched downstairs playing The Flowers of the Forest. It would have appealed overwhelmingly to a Spaniard's sense of curiosity...
Showfolk know that many an Equity card-holder does not expect to earn his or her living entirely from the stage, takes on radio, film, modeling, nightclub work to eke out stage earnings. The Billboard''?, distressing figures, however, make it easy to understand why the Broadway axiom nowadays is that it is easier to write a play than cast it, many & many an actor having traded prospects of unreliable pay on the stage for modest Hollywood film contracts...
Readers who fear political parables need not take fright; the stories in Twilight of a World are not messengers of any super-human faith. Not simply nostalgic ex-Austrians but men of good will in any land will understand and welcome them at sight. Some of them...
Early radio engineers and psysicists were aware that radio signals could be transmitted over long distances, but from a theoretical point of view they could not understand why this is possible. They saw no reason why this energy omitted from a transmitting station should not disappear into free space and be lost to the cart. To explain this difficulty, Sir Oliver Heaviside in England and Arthur E. Kennelly simultaneously proposed the explanation that radio signals are reflected from an ionized layer in the upper atmosphere and the energy thereby returned to the earth...