Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Minehan learned some useful tips on the art of begging. Said one adept: "Poorly dressed men with a grouch and a mean look are often the best prospects because they don't get hit so much." He learned to understand such lingo as: "I'm on the fritz, see? And I carries the banner slinking harness bulls. Until glims. Then I batters private plunging like a gandy dancer and red bulls sock into the old heavy-foot himself. 'Tooting ringers for a scoffing?' he says. 'Come wid me, I'll give...
...could understand it in a younger minister...
...meantime last week Mr. Hearst. Son John, Miss Davies, William Collier Jr. and Dorothy Mackaiil arrived in London after a leisurely trip through Spain. Correspondents flocked about Miss Davies, quizzed her about her portrait. Said she: "I cannot understand what it all means. So far as I know the people running the show asked that my portrait be sent...
...Author. Mikhail Sholokhov writes as one having authority. A Don Cossack like his hero, he has been through the same mill. His accounts of cavalry fighting, of the drifting suspense of the soldiers returning from the front to a revolution they did not understand, of the bloody skirmishes between Reds and Whites, in which no prisoners long survived, of ruthless massacres by both sides, read like eyewitness reports...
...true, this is the Indians' salvation. Let us call on the Great Spirit to make it so. J. P. Morgan (Navajo): Mr. Collier says it has taken the lawyers in Washington months and months to frame this bill. Well, it will take us Navajos months and months to understand it. For once the redmen's objections were heeded. Out of the bill were stricken provisions for special Indian courts and for all other compulsory requirements. Last week when the Senate and House got around to passing the measure, the New Deal for Indians consisted of the following...