Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your own inimitable way of li satirical "newswriting," are horrified by execution of your own class-brothers-the Wh Guardists-rats that got what they deserve, justice, proletarian justice. Of course, couldn't be expected to understand; your begeois ''culture" makes you a champion of " democracy" with its courts, "free," "open" ; jury trials with its McXamaras, Mooneys, Sac and Vanzettis and its Scottsboros (chosen "bitrarily") in comparison to its Insulls. T is your justice...
...measure of little importance. . . . The Manchester Guardian doesn't mention it. ... I told Wickham Steed [scholarly editor emeritus of the London Times'] that Bennett had attacked individualism in business and requested a comment. He replied, laughing, I can't speak on things I don't understand, and I don't understand that...
...commission to do a portrait of Sir Joseph Gilbert which in turn brought him a commission from Sir Charles Lawes-Writtewronge. After that Frank Salisbury was made. Since then he has propped up his easel before so many of the world's potentates, that it is difficult to understand why he has never been knighted or admitted to the Royal Academy. He has painted King George six times...
...American Physical Society arranged his lecture for Carnegie Institute of Technology's Little Theatre, seating 400, then nearly came to blows over distribution of tickets. Five thousand pleas for admission poured in. Said Dr. Einstein gently: "Bah! I will speak to 400-no more. No more would understand." His subject: "A Simple Proof of the Equivalence of Mass and Energy...
...last fortnight the venerable Portland Oregonian felt obliged to print the foregoing "plain statement of facts'' in a two-column box on its front page. It may have helped squelch a false rumor, but it could not make the Oregonian's 92.500 readers understand what had happened to their newspaper in the past month. Still dazed were they from that November morning when they saw. for the first time, a picture at the top of Page One. It illustrated not a world calamity but an ordinary sob-story...