Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm: Strangers cannot understand the debt of gratitude the German nation has contracted toward Adolf Hitler. ... He has inculcated by the force of his magnetism an historical evolution of the German nation...
...churchmen, Catholic Hitler spoke in a Nazi idiom not all of them understand. "The National Socialist State professes positive Christianity!"* He cried. "I will make an honest effort to protect the two great Christian confessions. ... It is further my intention to preserve the great cultural values inspired by our people in the past, including the prehistoric period...
Cinemaddicts who failed to understand this antique joke will not be historically enlightened by Twentieth Century's brief biography of the greatest goldsmith of the 16th Century. It exhibits Cellini only once in his studio and even then he works without enthusiasm. It is a portrait of him in his spare time, not as the artist but as the medieval playboy, dashing, sly and consecrated to misconduct. Magnificently acted by Frank Morgan, Fredric March and Constance Bennett, directed with delicacy by Gregory La Cava, The Affairs of Cellini is an uproarious and gracefully ribald costume play, rarely informative but almost...
...family plot at Neudeck in East Prussia, and announced the von Hindenburg bones will lie in the Field Marshal's Tower of the huge, ugly, fortress-like memorial at Tannenberg. "Men only will be permitted to attend the funeral service," announced Dr. Goebbels. Correspondents were given privately to understand that it would be inappropriate for a German hero's obsequies to be marred by wailing women...
...Clayton Glyn, J. P.), sister of a onetime London-Manhattan modiste (Lady Duff-Gordon), sixtyish, still handsome, Elinor Glyn has always exuded a faintly Hearstian phosphorescence. Considering herself a feline type, she strews her house in London, Paris, Hollywood with tiger and leopard skins, keeps two Persian cats who understand, she says, everything that is said to them. She and her sister as débutantes in London were famed for their brilliant wardrobe, much of it designed and made by themselves. Elinor Glyn began to write as a girl when she was confined by illness, never recovered from...