Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political squabbles, unemployment and riots had convinced him, a soldier since the age of puberty, that there could be neither peace nor security in Germany unless some way was found to re-establish the old German army and return to the form of government that Germans of his generation understand best: a monarchy. Smarter than most of the German military, he realized that neither of these things could come to pass unless France with her army of a half-million men was mollified. He assembled a little camarilla of army officers and aristocrats and last winter began making secret trips...
...RIPENING - Colette - Farrar & Rinehart. What Elinor Glyn used to be to thousands, Colette has increasingly become: purveyor to those who like mild aphrodisiacs in print.* But Colette, far above Authoress Glyn's tabloid class, wraps her erotic tablets in bathos-proof cellophane. Her uncanny feminine understanding, hearty physical sympathy for the internal workings of human nerves and glands, make her a writer who cannot avoid being labeled passionate but who never runs any danger of being cheap. Of the many Colette translations that have appeared in the U. S. in the last few years, The Ripening...
...Drys by saying the W. C. T. U. has a "crafty old head" in Mrs. Ella A. Boole (TIME, July 18). You have furnished the Wets another opprobrious and abusive epithet for women, of whom you mention three, whose title to honor and respect no Wet seems able to understand...
...really don't understand what was agreed with regard to air at the Disarmament Conference. I understand they agreed that there should be no bombing of civilians, but that does not eliminate aerial warfare. If bombing is to continue I do not think civilians have any right to claim a particular measure of immunity...
...been called to lead the Ethiopian out of darkness. I sent the President 30 messages. He hath the program but he don't seem to understand it,& Gilbert F. Bonner, a big black Southern Negro kept insisting to White House attaches as he camped outside President Hoover's office door. A "prophet of doom," Bonner wore an old Army uniform (he used to be a quartermaster sergeant), with a blue cheesecloth turban on his head. Small gilt crucifixes dangled from every blouse pocket. White House guards let him sit day after day in the lobby, vainly waiting...