Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wellesley, when the debutante reads poetry, when the moon is a soft golden cartwheel, and every breeze a zephyr. It's when every man is sick of four walls and ceiling; the time when the last Victorian wrote that "man he must go with a woman which women cannot understand," and Tennyson asked, "Ah, why should life all labor be, why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things?" Spring is when seniors try to get worried about Divisional and can't, but only about studying for them; when Juniors feel that here is nothing quite like...
...propose to find cure-alls, but rather hope to examine the economic structure and to analyze factors, controlling those which can be controlled and weighing those which cannot. The decrease of membership of the Economics department, by indicating the closer restriction of the field to these men who do understand its aims, shows the more effective direction of its efforts...
...comprehensive way." Greatly did this speech dismay that good public friend of Governor Roosevelt's, the arch-Democratic New York Times, which declared: "Why the Governor should feel it necessary to say things which, coming from another, would be called demagogic claptrap, it is hard to understand. He does not need to go out and beat the bushes for votes. If he must speak, he ought to make sure of his facts first and then deal with them in a way not to cause his supporters to blush. . . . His speech was of a sort to make his friends sorry...
...with chromatics and the twelve-tone scale. They illustrate new elaborately propounded principles which many a young ultra modern is endeavoring to cultivate. But such cerebral mat ters have little interest for the rank & file of orchestra subscribers. Philadelphians were plainly grateful last week for new music they could understand. With the 532 performers they applauded vigorously the man who had insisted on giving it. then conducted it superbly. Stokowski will repeat the performance April 20 in Manhattan...
...good families who lived on coupons and the wealth of sea faring ancestors--very much in their time like paint manufacturers in 1875. But it couldn't be done. There were heartbreaks and failures, there were blunders and embarrassments, there were snobbery and humiliations. The paint man couldn't understand, he never understood, why his daughters, the one so pretty the other so clever, could not be accepted by the great granddaughters of sea faring men. Then came business failure, the selling of the nearly completed house on Beacon Street, and the removal to the old farm in Vermont from...