Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work of candidates for the Dramatic Club corresponds to that done by the various managers of a professional company. The heads of the various departments will outline definitely the work that their candidates will undertake, so that anyone wishing to enter a competition will understand what he will be expected...
...Marquess of Salisbury: "A finger has been wagged in my direction. I fail to understand this movement. Was it admonitory...
...audiences composed chiefly of bibulous automobile makers, our show was a flop. They just couldn't see it. I like to watch the people who are watching my shows and it is interesting to notice their reactions. Here, in Boston, now, in contrast to Detroit, the audiences seem to understand the show, and though it doesn't call for a brilliant mind to follow out show, we presuppose a certain amount of sophistication, intelligence, and education on the part of the people who come to see and hear our revue...
...Secret sect which claims to understand the mysteries of Nature; founded in Europe...
...woman is called. Before and after Giorgio Mirelli she has had many men. Her proclivity for throwing her very beautiful body away on gutter types right after it has been worshiped by refined slaves, suggests degeneracy to most of her critics. The impassive Gubbio thinks not. He can understand it is her subtle revenge upon men who desire only that part of her which she scorns. Her revenge upon Giorgio, a pure youth, an artist, had to be yet more subtle because the injury he did her was worse than the others. He enjoyed only her body and that only...