Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long period that they are always vague. Then the Coolidge Prosperity Bandwagon gets rolling and sweeps all before its high pressure salesmanship and concentrated ballyton. The Florida boom is used as a preface to the Big Bull Market and its child the Crash, which is treated well, simply and understandably. The arrival of the new morality, along with its unwanted offspring the confession, magazines, tabloids, etc., is traced, and alcohol and Al receive their due share of space. The steady jeering of Mencken, Lewis, and the highbrows is allowed to echo through the book's pages and upon finishing...
This work cannot be recommended too highly. It is not scholarly and is good for that reason. It probably will not live long but should be read today by anyone who wishes to be well informed or intends to understand America in the doldrums. It is as entertaining as it is thorough, and the author's selection of material is excellent. He writes from a liberal bias but it gives an impression that he is free from prejudices. He does not hesitate to give conclusions as well as more than enough facts for the reader to form his own conclusions...
...view that there is any need of artificial inflation of the credits or currency of the country," declared Senator Glass when his bill was reported out by committee, "but if there, is to be any more inflation it should be brought about by a simple method which everybody may understand and not by the roundabout process which is being vainly tried by the Federal Reserve authorities. I think there should be 'diffusive' inflation rather than so-called 'controlled' inflation. ... I distinctly disavow the belief that any of these legislative devices is necessary at this time...
...would be manifestly impertinent to sympathize with your editorial-writer and with the Dean of Barnard College, now that their recent remarks on education have been characterized as "ignorant" and "erroneous." The Dean of the Graduate School of Education, writing ex cathedra, gives us to understand that laymen are hardly qualified to deal with those technical matters. In fact, ever since education became a branch of technology, we have been left in the dark about such problems, perforce content to take the word of experts who have attained facility in experimental technique or glibness in professional jargon. Our own School...
Inquisitor-Well, did you understand it was money sent you by the Mayor...