Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This young couple's problem of incompatibility has been cleverly handled by Eager, who has brought to the stage a group of gay, interesting characters. They are as much at a loss to understand Ann's serious-minded husband, as poor David is to fathom them...
...pretty; so pretty and innocent that it's a pity to cast her pathetic story in cold lead. But it's all for her good and anyway today is her birthday. Isn't that right, Dora? No, you mustn't touch the candles. They burn. Burn! Don't you understand? It hurts...
...France, after much pressure by British Ambassador Sir George Clerk upon the Quai d'Orsay, Premier Pierre Laval guardedly repeated the ambiguous pledge he gave last autumn in such terms that London papers last week gave their readers to understand that M. Laval had said France will join England in the fight if Mussolini should do anything silly...
...Germans. When he quit his Ambassadorship last year because of poor health, the Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter chortled, "His departure is a gain for the pacification of Europe and exorcises the baneful Versailles spirit he fostered. Lord Tyrrell was a man of yesterday who simply could not understand that a new era had dawned." Last week, on being informed of his new job, Watchdog Tyrrell said: "I go to the pictures perhaps once, perhaps twice a week. . . . Why, I saw one last night-very good, too. I have no particular taste; in fact I like most of them...
...special study of sex psychology. Born in Surrey of a seafaring family, he traveled to Chile at the age of 6, was in charge of a government school in New South Wales by the time he was 19. Deciding that he needed a knowledge of biology in order to understand himself and others, he studied medicine in London, began applying a scientific attitude to literary criticism, was editor of the famed Mermaid Series that first made Elizabethan drama available to the general public. Marrying in 1891, he began the first volume of his Studies in the Psychology of Sex, which...