Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understand there was a tree-planting at Oslo and that a street in Hamburg, my last post, is also being named after Washington...
...held the power-of-attorney necessary for his father's admission to the Massachusetts primary. In that election he is on the Roosevelt slate as a delegate-at-large to the Chicago convention. Last week he told a Boston audience: "Neither Father nor his close friends can understand at this time the failure of Governor Smith to support his candidacy." Then he hustled off to Portland to gladhand Maine Democrats meeting there...
...where I had my appendicitis operation.' The girl replied, 'No don't show me here.' The Scotsman took her across the road, pointed at the hospital and said, 'This is where I had my operation.' " "Hrrumph!" said the Worshipful Frederick North. "Let me understand you, Miss Harris. The girl and the Scotsman were in a park opposite St. George's Hospital. That would of course be Hyde Park, and it is his premise that the girl be shown the actual scar on his person while he actually showed her St. George...
...Blue hides her shame, but Cricket is sick of the settlement, its people and its life. Even her love for Blue cannot hold her; she runs off to New York, joins Man Jay in Harlem. When, later, they return to persuade Blue to give her a divorce, Blue cannot understand what it is all about. After a fight in which Cricket defends Blue against Man Jay, Blue lets his love go. He will see her again, no more, no, never more...
...Lubitsch himself used it before in a silent cinema called The Marriage Circle, but this time he has given it a new informality, with tricks which other Hollywood directors are bound to imitate. Chevalier addresses the audience from time to time and tells them, to make sure that they understand the story, that he is in love with his wife, Colette (Jeannette MacDonald), but tantalized by her best friend. Mitzi (Genevieve Tobin). Most of the dialog, instead of being poorly translated German as is usually the case in Lubitsch opera, is in easy, loosely rhymed couplets. Sample...