Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photographs of President Roosevelt taken by Thomas McAvoy [TIME, Feb. 25] were undoubtedly the best results that I have ever come across and I can understand only too well the technique that must have been necessary during their development to prevent halation, due to the windows in the background. My hat is off to this marvelous achievement in the advancement of photography...
...rather hard to understand just how Frank Borzage could have been persuaded to direct a picture like "Living on Velvet." Mr. Borzage in previous efforts has shown a directorial intelligence and maturity which manifests itself but rarely in this smart set drama from the First National lot. Aside from this little puzzle there is nothing particularly noteworthy about "Living on Velvet." The story stands on the shakiest sort of familiar actions--wealthy young man addicted to aviation cracks up with his father, mother, and sister, all of whom are killed. The accident upsets him terrifically and his mental state gets...
...market, but do not consider any action on their part called for. . . . We have never had a complaint that the present high price of tin is unreasonable. . . . In fact the price of tin has remained remarkably stable for many months with the result that speculation has, I understand, greatly diminished...
...country, moreover, its doctrines must be met by convincing arguments and its charges disproved or adequately explained. Driving the organization underground is evasion of the issue. The Communist Party is attracting members because its arguments and charges are forcefully and clearly set forth so that the common man can understand their import. He many not understand the intricacies of "dialectical materialism" or "surplus value," but he does know that he cannot find work, though he is willing, that men reap financial gains far greater than their usefulness to society merits, and that the present system of production and distribution...
...gets the impression he has a very slack maid, and he removes his glove and writes on the walls and windows in the dust "D-I-R-T." Well, he doesn't understand, so he, the over-neat boy, goes to the janitor and complains on his maid with the result she is either transferred or fired. Now I tell you this so that you may understand...