Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chico Marx runs an ice cream wagon at a racetrack. When he spies Groucho placing a bet on Sun-Up, he intercedes, sells the visitor a tip. When Groucho fails to understand the tip. Chico produces a code book from the ice cream wagon, sells Groucho the code book. When Groucho fails to understand the code book, Chico sells him a master code book. By the time the transaction ends, Groucho has a whole library of code books. Chico has Groucho's money, which he bets...
...easy to be tolerant in retrospect, so hard to be unmoved by the hatreds of the moment. The emotions of 1914-1917 and those of today represent the psychological disturbances of a people at peace. By estimating the magnitudes of these strains we can at least understand better the irrational vindictiveness of a people at war. The protestations of even intelligent. Northerners when Robert E. Lee was made President of Washington College at Lexington, Virginia, shortly after the close of the Civil War seem strange to this generation which in every part of the country recognizes Lee's greatness...
Control of a prominent French daily is a mark of success every French politician can understand. It means more than an obvious chance to spread propaganda; it means that the lucky politico has Backers...
With so many brain children, all of sparkling intelligence, hatched by the minds of those who best understand the Law School and its needs, it would appear undisputedly accurate to forecast a fine beginning for the Landis regime in September. Yet it is to be hoped that Mr. Landis will not mar such a promising start by further intemperate public statements on current questions. If he curbs his vigorous tongue, the zealous reforming attitude displayed by him, combined with the innovations in the curriculum, presage a long period of prosperity for the Harvard Law School...
...understand that the University's statement issued on April 6 has been misconstrued in some quarters as a reflection on your teaching capacity and scholarly ability. I very much regret this. No such reflection was intended; the statement in my opinion cannot justly be taken as implying that you are not an able teacher or scholar. All that was meant or implied was that your political views and activities outside the University had nothing to do with the decision and that the choice among several candidates was made according to academic criteria...