Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dictation, soon developed the point that a storm of this magnitude would have attracted attention around his old prairie home, reached the sentence, "In that sod house the winter's wood was in the shed." Ten minutes later he was still trying to make New York understand "sod house" and "winter's wood." An hour after he began, when both author and syndicate amanuensis were complaining of sore ears, the lines gave out for good on the pregnant phrase: "We are subject to an economic system...
...author's ability to make the Continent of Asia seem somewhat like a small town, filled with the same gossipy characters turning up on every corner, with the same old feuds and underground activities that a stranger might be aware of, get involved in, but could not understand...
Freshmen unused to the wiles of Cambridge find the art of being a Harvard man harder to master than the study card, class schedule, and H.A.A. ticket embroilment all rolled into one. For one groping in the dark this way it is particularly important to understand that the foremost pleasure of being a Harvard man comes from the fact that there is no such thing...
...soul into spending the $175,000 to make the Conference a success. For six months quantities of press releases were poured out. Three auditoriums, in the Department of Labor, in the Department of Commerce and in the National Museum were equipped with "translators" whereby foreign delegates who did not understand English could, by picking up earphones, hear translations in French, German or Spanish. And finally for the grand banquet Washington's Union Station was hired and its vast waiting room-the only available place in the capital large enough to seat 3,000 guests-converted into a dining room...
...best portrait in To My Father is that of Dr. Chastain, whose plaint was always that he could "never understand these people," and whose lack of acceptance of Northern ways made him vulnerable to his enemies. Wrhen he encountered a frightful scandal in the hospital-the chief of staff was supplying maidens to an aged voluptuary-he insisted on exposing it, took the story to the man for whom the virgins were provided. Soon his lack of understanding of the people around him made him see enemies everywhere. He drove away patients by telling them his troubles. But when...