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Word: understandingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blood money in wanton and maddened drunken roistering, are not quite boldly enough emphasized. But that is a retrospective fault. It is a splendid play, and McLaglen is excellent. Margot Grahame and Heather Angel lend tearful vividity to the general gloom. All in all, it is not hard to understand the extraordinary acclaim given this picture last year by professional and popular critics alike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE PARAMOUNT AND FENWAY | 1/31/1936 | See Source »

...colored portrait on the cover goes into my scrapbook. I would have you understand that is a great honor. Only a few personalities retain a position there, and among those few are Roosevelt II and Einstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 27, 1936 | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

Bernstorff: Then I am to understand that you do not recognize the law of retaliation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Graveyard Parade | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

Secretary Morgenthau: What I might say, if it became public property or was discussed on the floor of the Senate or the House, might have a very adverse effect on the Government's credit. . . . Senator: Do I understand you to say that your answer to my question would be such that if it were made public it would adversely affect and seriously injure the Government's credit? Secretary: What I am trying to say is it might be misinterpreted. . . . Senator: On that basis no statement could ever be made because all statements are liable to misinterpretation. . . . Senator Couzens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Something So Delicate | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...Admiralty tried to starve them out by cutting off their supplies, the mutineers retaliated by trying to blockade the Port of London. Government agents tried to start a counter-mutiny by smuggling thunderous proclamations into the rebellious ships. To this a mutineer tersely replied: "Dam my eyes if I understand your lingo or long Proclimations but in short give us our Due at Once and no more at it, till we go in search of the Rascals the Eneymes of our Country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mutiny | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

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