Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public office, Puerto Ricans were ready to consider him "simpatico" because he was a Roman Catholic and had nine children. But ceremony-loving Puerto Ricans, accustomed to the tact and diplomacy of Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and the quiet efficiency of Governor James Rumsey Beverley, found it difficult to understand Governor Gore's blunt and open manner. He sought to gain popularity by legalizing cockfighting throughout the island (he signed the bill with a tailfeather-see cut) but got only a few scattered cheers. Opposition to his methods arose in the Independence wing of the Liberal Party and before...
...this if in nothing else. The picture has already been reviewed but for those latecomers who missed it, let it be said that it has Jimmy Cagney's stacatto, Joan Blondell's blondness and Ruby Keeler's senseless simper. The plot means nothing. You can see the show and understand it if you drop in while waiting for the subway. If you like spectacles, extravagance in settings and the aforementioned galaxy of stars, there should be no complaint with "Footlight Parade...
Annie finally taught Helen to speak, but her voice is still a disappointment to both of them: strangers find it hard to understand. To show Helen how sounds are formed Annie would let Helen put her fingers on her lips, inside her mouth, "sometimes far down in her throat." That Annie is no mean voice-trainer may be judged by the fact (vouched for by Authoress Braddy) that she taught her dog Sieglinde to say "Mama...
...Student Council wishes the undergraduates to understand that the Council stands as a medium between them and the Administration. We hope that any suggestions or problems relative to students in the College will be referred to the Council at its office in Phillips Brooks House. The Council will consider these problems with a view to possible action...
...concerts have such intellectual honesty and humility as patriarchal Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath exhibited last winter. Lawyer Cravath is not "musical"' and, with the practical candor of Booth Tarkington's Plutocrat, he admits it. He felt that, as chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Company, he should understand more about what he sits and listens to. So all last winter he took lessons in appreciation from Pianist Olga Samaroff". So did 40 Junior League girls who in a few months lost their horror of music's technicalities. Pianist Samaroff would sound different notes until they learned to identify...