Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's veto of the "Veterans Bill." Practically no notice is taken of the fact that this was 40% Veterans and 60 % Political Jobholders Bill. Incidentally, the gentlemen who voted to override the veto raised their own wages $1,000 per. The other $500 will come later. I understand that Senator Borah offered an amendment to cut out all salaries over $6,000 but did not get to first base.Now it is possible and probable that some veterans are in want, but it would be a brave man who would claim that any political jobholder is actually suffering...
...protested to the Periodical Chief (and Buyer) telling her I could understand the Library's discontinuing its New Yorker & Vanity Fair subscriptions but as for its TIME discontinuation, goodness, no, never! Her excuse was that the Library had so many research periodicals to subscribe to that it just couldn't see how it could afford to subscribe to TIME...
...Nazidom upon their church an iron olive branch: "I admonish them to abandon their perverted craving for martyrdom and submit as a Christian duty. Govern the tongue, that unruly member. The church conflict has filled the mass of our people with astonishment, scorn and bitterness, for they cannot understand why pastors should quarrel. Nothing cures the itch for church politics like a visit to the sick...
...Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants said Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims, U. S. N. retired, who has spent 42 of his 75 years at sea: "The sea is fine when viewed from the shore but I am unable to understand how men can slop around in small boats and like it better the wetter they get and the stronger they smell of fish. . . . I never liked going...
...uncorked with impunity, but these drops give an inkling of the flavor: "I remember an old Danish bishop's saying to me that there are many ways to the recognition of truth, and that Burgundy is one of them. . . . I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with Him. To love Him truly you must love change, and you must love a joke, these being the true inclinations of His own heart." One of Dinesen's sophisticated elders quotes "that old saying which the peasants call the bachelor...