Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans are such good people that they are slow to recognize wickedness. . . ." Russia is a "ruthless and brutal nation," full of "atheism and immorality," its inhabitants, "ranging from Mongol beggars to stuffed commissars," mostly unhappy. In a flash of etymological insight he concluded: "Neither the Russians nor their tyrants understand the meaning of democracy. They are Slavs, which means captives or slaves...
Anglo-Saxons who (without His express consent) had elected God to the board of directors of the S.P.C.A. would never understand why men stood weeping last week on Mexico street corners. Or why altars in private homes were draped in black. Or why jammed movie theaters canceled feature pictures to show, over & over, newsreels of a man whose name most Anglo-Saxons had never heard. His native Spain mourned him, and Mexico...
...Charlie Chaplin and Babe Ruth and General MacArthur all died at once, Americans would not feel the loss as poignantly as millions of Spaniards and their cousins felt the death of Manuel Rodriguez-Manolete, the bullfighter. Hard as Americans might find it to understand, the story of his short life will be long and reverently remembered in the Spanish-speaking world...
...seem to have hurt both Mr. and Mrs. Farley. For that I am genuinely sorry . . . but I feel I never treated them any differently. . . ." Being a member of the Cabinet, observed Mrs. Roosevelt, implied that one was considered "a man of parts." She pursued sweetly: "Mr. Farley failed to understand this. His tremendous emphasis on purely society questions ... when the really important things were . . . social questions of the day shows that . . . Mr. Farley thought . . . little of those objectives...
Edward J. Flynn, boss of The Bronx, is far less colorful and articulate than Penrose, far more aware of the significance of his job than Kelly and his kind. Flynn is the new-style boss, well-educated, personable, thoroughly equipped to understand the more complex aspects of modern government. His machine is run from an office building, not from a hotel lobby or a clubhouse. It has a filing system, bylaws and rigidly constructed channels of command...