Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come when the Vicomte deserved another long holiday. He and his wife conferred as to what they should do. This time they had nine months at their disposal−obviously, the proper thing was a trip around the world. Obviously also, if you have been an ace, you understand that the majority of aeronautical accidents are the pilot's fault and that being up in the air, so long as no one is shooting at you from another plane, is as safe as being on the ground and much more pleasant. Accordingly, the de Sibours would go around...
...increased its armaments while all others have decreased theirs.* Its signature is attached to the [Kellogg] Pact of Paris renouncing war of aggression, but I do not know that it has renounced another kind of warfare which some regarded as a holy war,† thinking they and they alone understand the truth which they desire to impose upon other countries...
...summation: "A modern miracle is a prohibition agent who tells the truth on the witness stand." Judge Atwell bristled, thought of the impeccable Texas constabulary. After the conviction he loudly rebuked Mr. Serri, said: "His recital of the bootleggers' game is astonishing to the court, and I cannot understand how any reputable attorney could have such first hand information. . . . In my country had you made such an accusation against an officer of the law he would have smashed your face before you got out of the court room." Continuing, he suggested that Mrs. de Luca should move...
...better to study enigmatic reptile nature, the Sahib kept a cobra under glass, until he found he was losing caste with the natives for imprisoning a god. And throughout his Indian sojourn he learned to understand that reverence for the almighty cobra. One night he was wakened by an unearthly din; his terrified dog crept under the mosquito netting with him. In a pool of moonlight a family of cats fought with a host of rats: danse macabre to the rhythm of warlike squeaks and terrific meows: Then sudden silence. A glistening cobra had glided out of the gloom. Glassy...
...that he is qualified to marry a pretty French barkeeper, which he does, after romancing to her of his vast estates in the U. S. Not until his old master, Major Edward Powell, stumbles into the café and explains to Lise just what a Negro is, does she understand that her husband has been lying...