Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history of international misunderstandings. In the years immediately after the war many of the delegates could be accused of wilful blindness. And in this blindness the Germans have often been foremost. With all the good will in the world they have come into conferences, and through failure to understand the other fellow and an unfortunate habit of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time have brought down the wrath of the Allies upon their heads...
...Plan affected revenue, and therefore invaded the House's constitutional prerogative to initiate this kind of legislation. But the Farm issue temporarily overtopped the Constitution. Chairman Snell of the House Rules Committee put it thus: "If we should start some Constitutional argument here, the people wouldn't understand and we couldn't make them understand. They want Farm Relief and they want it at once." Chairman Snell therefore prepared a rule to receive the Farm Bill from the Senate and send it to conference with this proviso: "In the opinion of the House there is a question...
...onetime Kaiser, lately engaged to German Cinemactress Lili Damita, is listed as "Louis Ferdinand," student-laborer, in the Ford assembly plant in Los Angeles. He eats his lunches from paper bags. Last week he said he liked his job. Said he: "I'm just goofy-you understand that?-about it, although I do not know what my parents will do when they find...
Published by famed Bernarr Macfadden (pink tabloid Graphic, lurid confessional magazines), the new daily - New York Daily Investment News - described itself as designed to "help the public understand Wall Street." When the Investment News was first announced (TIME, April 8), many a scoffer wondered how Publisher Macfadden, previously more interested in short skirts than in short selling, in swimming pools rather than in stock pools, could successfully turn to the Facts of Finance from the Facts of Life. Yet well was the transition made. There is no sex in the Investment News. There are no cosmographs. It is a tabloid...
...short way of saying "the gloom is thick enough to cut with a knife." And yet, on the opposite end of the scale, it would be doing Farrell an injustice to declare that his optimism is of the Pollyana sort. Mingle with the athletes and you will understand what I mean...