Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot understand how your newsgatherers came to give you such a statement, for it is without foundation in fact. I was at my post uninterruptedly fulfilling my official functions for several months before and after the change of government, and not only was I not absent from the city of Madrid during the entire time of the revolutionary crisis but I .did not even leave the Embassy premises except on official business for many days...
Laborites Defeated in one of the most savage election massacres that ever humbled a great party included almost every Laborite of whom the U. S. public has ever heard: former Home Minister John Robert Clynes; former War Minister Tom Shaw who declared, "I can't understand it!"; former First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander; former Minister of Health Arthur Greenwood; former Minister of Labor Miss Margaret ("St. Maggie") Bondfield; famed female Trade Unionist Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson; and Oliver Baldwin, Socialist son & foe of Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin. Downward through the party, defeat was uniform. In municipal...
...myself am close enough to undergraduate days to understand this attitude. And I am more tolerant than older graduates of the CRIMSON's high disregard of what fifty-year old alumni think or say about Harvard's football policy in the year 1931. Eugene L. Belisle, '31 New York City. Alumini Bulletin
...girls have set up a chart to which the boys must conform. Intelligence counts twenty points, the highest. The ability to understand the word "no" counts five percent, the lowest. Which all boils down to the fact that a young man can be ninety-five percent perfect and have a pretty good time for a dime...
...Mahonri Young the sculptor said I was built practically the equivalent of Jack Dempsey. That is, if Dempsey was a woman, you understand. I was born in the same part of Colorado. . . . I have lots of friends out in Thermopolyae, Wyo., but I have to tell them I'm a trained nurse because they never heard of art. They'd think I was working in a peep show...