Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Socialist, I regret in advance lay readers' probable titter at your implied censure (TIME, April 24) of Socialist Norman Thomas for locking Long Island henpen which supplies eggs for Mrs. Thomas' New York restaurant. I understand Socialist principles to include not only ''equitable distribution of wealth" as you point out, but also equitable distribution of commodities. Any restaurant which, as Mrs. Thomas' establishment at No. 71 Irving Place does, serves polite proletariat a well-cooked, well-balanced dinner for from 45? to $1 on attractive tableware, in clean, quiet, friendly surroundings, is following principles...
...Security in turn for real reduction in armaments and armament expenditures. That was not the only fruit of the Washington conversations to appear in Geneva. Two days later Mr. Davis backed France and Britain to the full against German requests for "sample" tanks and siege guns, and let correspondents understand that this too was a Roosevelt-Hcrriot-MacDonald agreement. London. Next day the oracle spoke again, from Britain, whither the Ambassador-at-Large hurried by train and plane to join the organizing committee of the World Economic Conference. Again he had an official announcement...
First, with appropriate humility, he apologized for his "failure to make the other nations understand Japan's position," advised the Japanese not to waste their time on such "an unworthy servant." Second, he bitterly attacked the "attitude of superiority toward Asiatics" in British Lord Lytton's League of Nations Report on Manchuria. Third, getting his tongue into his bugle, he said, "Japan is in a position never to compromise in any way regarding recognition of Manchukuo...
...magic plays," and "brilliant repertoire," approaches the kissing of the Blarney Stone. It is doubtful whether Synge, perhaps the greatest of the Irish playwrights, as he listened through a chink in the floor of his upstairs room in a little peasant house where he lived to learn and understand the Irish, would appreciate this box-office phrasing. Since O'Casey and Yeats take it with a grain of salt, it must be necessary. The plays are simple and forthright in action. What has made them works of art and at the same time given them market value is the conviction...
...American people must understand that the China of today is not the China of 20 years ago. There has been a natural awakening. China will never submit to the Japanese...