Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dalhart's but it was the likeness that made Judge Davis pronounce George the copycat. Dalhart learned the song from an older Whitter phonograph record in 1923, made several mistakes which are also in George's version. The engineer's name was Steve. Dalhart did not understand it on the record so called him Pete. Average, in stanza three, makes no sense. It was airbrakes in the original version...
...France, a yacht on which he spends a good deal of his time in foreign waters, and now I see he is no longer going to have any race horses in England. He has sent his string over to France. Is this setting a good example? "Dukes, I understand, are made to look up to. We are told they stand by their country. Where should we be if we copied them? "Perhaps this behavior is because His Grace has met with troubles in England, but I think one shouldn't shirk his duty. One should put personal pettinesses...
HERR Hitler kicked Kaethe Kollwitz out of Germany, and very sensible he was to do so. Men who know the true fruits of war he cannot train to be warriors. Men who understand the inevitable evils of capitalism he cannot persuade to support his program for the rehabilitation of German capitalists. Kollwitz' art is nothing if not truthful about these horrors. Quick flesh but thinly veils the bony deathsheads of her starving men and women. Death, indeed, dominates the work of Kollwitz now being exhibited at the Germanic Museum. Not Death as in the silent senseless repose of the dead...
...when," asked bold Walter Duranty, "did you take that name?" Looking rather embarrassed, according to Duranty, Stalin replied, "Some of my comrades gave it to me in 1911 or maybe 1910. They seemed to think it suited me. You understand we 'underground' [i. e. terrorist] workers used such nicknames because we always had to hide from the Tsarist police...
Lincoln Steffens, in an interview with the devil, performs an amusing tour de force by identifying satan with that above all things which Mr. Steffens hates--the instinct of conservatism, the blind lust to save things which we do not understand or evaluate. More pretentious, and less satisfying, is a homily on the institution of marriage by Andre Maurois. M. Maurois fights hard to preserve his urbanity, but through it all glitters that most distressing of phenomena, the putter-to-rights, who is just as alien an element in magazines as he is in the drama, where he contents himself...