Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such unseemly trouble. Confirmation reduced the President to embarrassed silence. He dreaded the jokes, the wisecracks, the Wet smirks that were sure to follow. Of course he was not the keeper of his plumber brother-in-law but he could not disavow him publicly. Now he could somewhat understand how Dry Senator Fess felt when his son Lowell was caught brawling in New York speakeasies (TIME, June 15), how Dry Senator Heflin suffered when his son Tom Tom Jr. misbehaved with liquor (TIME, July 1, Sept. 16, 1929, Oct. 27, 1930), how Vice President Curtis' son Harry had embarrassed...
Lady A.: I do not understand that reply...
...believed that boys of outstanding scholastic promise will greatly benefit by being assured of admission to college a full year in advance." So saying, Dartmouth last week accepted for admission next autumn 20 pre-freshmen, giving them to understand that in their last school year they were free to follow their own scholastic interests instead of cramming for dread College Board examinations. Thus, also, was Dartmouth somewhat assured that at least 20 promising Dartmouth men would not change their minds and go off with classmates to some other college...
...Bolivians understand that their ousted President Hernando Siles is now "somewhere in Chile." The revolutionary Government of General Carlos Blanco Galindo held a "Constitutional Election" last January, then vanished gracefully in March after staging the ornate inaugural of elected President Daniel Salamanca. He last fortnight pleased President Hoover by agreeing to seek Pan-American mediation of Bolivia's everlasting frontier dispute with Paraguay...
...Author Walpole anxiously points out in a foreword, you do not have to have read Rogue Berries to understand Judith Paris: each volume of this tetralogy (two are still to come) can be taken or left alone...