Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot understand why you published the sentiments expressed in that letter. That you should soil the "nonsectarian, nonpartisan" pages of TIME with the "German Kultur" of Karl Busch is beyond the comprehension of any right-thinking American. It might be well to assure Busch that none of us wish to share German glory. He is apparently unable to understand that any real man will give honor where honor is due. We all respect men of the type of Baron Richthofen even though we cannot always respect the cause to which they devote themselves...
Lysistrata is of course Aristophanes' ancient comedy of feminism. The Russians have chosen to exhibit an extremely rowdy and briskly amusing version. If the police commissioner could understand it there would certainly be difficulties. But he cannot nor can much of the population, and what does anybody care about the morals of anyone so obviously peculiar as to speak Russian...
...briefest wills ever filed, he made her sole executrix of $140,000,000. None of the five Harriman children received a penny. Mrs. Harriman was careful in the education of the children. She had them taught to ride as soon as they could toddle, and never let them understand, until they reached years of discretion, that their father was more than ordinarily rich...
...very short story Mr. J. E. Barnett's "Fern Seed" possesses a degree of intensity that is admirable. Perhaps one does not understand the meaning of all the apparitions that came to Karl as he waited at the cross-roads "over both of which corpses have been borne to the burial-ground", but the retribution was Karl's secret, not ours. Mr. Barnett writes with a hint of magic. With Mr. Dumaux he should share honors...
...Then, too, a comedian must have a profound understanding of human nature, he must understand the psychology of the human brain. I find that one of the most effective ways to get a good laugh is to produce a rapid change from one emotion to another, from tears to laughter for example...