Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never at any time saw the slightest misconduct on the part of any delegate from Texas or any other State. The trouble with some of the ultra-conservatives up your way is that if a man makes a little noise he is drunk. You do not seem to understand the psychology of having a good time otherwise. . . . It is my understanding that there were 100,000 visitors in Philadelphia and that many of them were Republicans as well as Democrats...
...Sting No. 4. After the Emperor had given Geneva to understand for several days that he would not plead Ethiopia's cause himself before the Assembly, abruptly at the last moment the King of Kings announced that he was entering the fray in person, will "fight to the last gasp of breath...
Full of grief and tears, . . . Roosevelt gave us to understand...
...special interest rate that not only paid him his 3% but let the Government have 1½% too. Last week M. Duplessis read a letter from Father Antoine to his son complaining of the annual "annoyance" given him by Government bank inspectors who did not at once understand this arrangement. If this nagging did not stop, said Father Antoine, he might switch his account to another bank. To these revelations, Antoine Taschereau last week replied that he was "not ashamed" of so commonplace a procedure. He formally wrote the Government a check for its back interest but asked a superior...
...great sportsman. I have a holy horror of sport. As for the French bourgeoisie-to which I myself belong-I do not like them. My nostrils have breathed heavily the winds of the great spaces. I abhor everything which might be niggardly. The bourgeoisie are too egotistical. They cannot understand that it is no longer possible to keep the French people in a state of relative misery. Yes, it is true, I am called 'The Red Marquise...