Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people will not be surprised by the attitude taken by President Coolidge. They understand Mr. Coolidge must play politics in the matter, but they do have faith in the American Congress." Meanwhile ructions continued in the islands. The Insular Legislature provided some years ago an Independence Fund, an annual outlay of 1,000,000 pesos ($500,000) for promoting the independence of the islands. The fund, unlike any expenditure authorized by Congress, receives its annual income of 1,000,000 pesos without any specific appropriation. Moreover, it is spent secretly. Some time ago court proceedings were instituted by the opponents...
Representative Frederick N. Zihlman, Republican of Maryland, rose and declared: "You can well understand the humiliation that I have felt at the insinuations which have been made against my name and character. Those of you who have served here with me know that I am no master of eloquence and it would be absolutely impossible for me to move you by any eloquent appeal...
Before reaching his discussion of business as we understand it today, Mr. Swope traced the growth of industry and trade. The first thing that prompted business was service. "Men", he said, "exchanged products to save time, and to save labor. Then as communities grew, matters became more complex. You first had the country stores, which were finally grouped together into larger unions. Then came the chain stores, and our large department stores. Now our cities have grown so rapidly that the status of economic conditions has not kept pace with them, for the waste in the distribution of food products...
...course Pervus would not understand this. So she keeps her idea a secret. And then, when Dirk is aged ten, Pervus dies...
...play must have a story, and human nature, in order to be studied, must have situations to react upon; but in the last two acts there seems to be a lack of balance between comic situation and characterization, the latter being, we are given to understand, the main purpose of the Kentucky plays. The people tend to be obscured by the very plot which never fails to keep us laughing. And after the story is done, back we come in a short tag-ending to Beem's poetry of life, as if the author had suddenly remembered what the play...