Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reveal, with many an apt turn of phrase, high powers of impressionistic criticism. The caricature of Max Beerbohm is as successful as many of his own caricatures. The review of "Cytherea" is perhaps too conscious in its "joyous paganism" (the same may be said of the book, I understand), but the concluding remarks on the novel are sound, and the whole is well expressed...
...literary courses which occur in the engineering curriculum, not realizing that such courses are meant to broaden their education. They do not realize that it is the broad-minded man who gets the highest position, not merely the technically perfect man; it is the man who can meet and understand every type of problem, who can talk with men in every position, who can appreciate the accomplishments of the world around him, and above all who is ready to receive and accept improvements and new ideas...
...Phanka Wu!"--(M. Blair-Duncan would understand...
...Treaty of Versailles was negotiated under the direction of a Democrat while the Republicans were in control of the Senate. The opposition it encountered was therefore such as the world, could conceive of and understand. But the Four-Power Treaty was negotiated by a commission which not only fairly reflected the party complexion of the Senate but included the two men who stood out as the leaders of the opposing parties in that chamber. Never was a treaty signed by us with brighter prospects of immediate ratification. If in spite of all this a reservation is now adopted, the world...
When this is written to the girl at home she does not understand. There is no understanding in her. The engagement is broken and with it the last of that other world is gone. He faces an empty existence and stands looking over the sea. His old self, his old belief, his old love have passed away...