Word: understands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Putting England Right." Tell Mr. Sydney Walton to improve the English weather, thin out London traffic, make it easier to get on a good golf course, turn out some good-looking women in the shops, streets and society, install decimal currency, teach taxi-drivers to talk so I can understand them, have the newspapers print something about America- especially business news-get some shows and nightclubs running that can compare with Broadway (and stop that annoying "club" system that makes it so hard to have a good time except in roughneck night places). When these things are attended...
...tortured look. The impulse which has sent women to the nunnery ... is pushing Marion Talley now. It is a psychological case if the farm plan is sincere ; it is another ballyhoo, like the original Chamber of Commerce stunt, if it is not." Said Manager Gatti-Casazza: "I do not understand. I have always been like a father...
...picture, perhaps, with its conventional figures appearing in stained glass colors, this 32-year-old idyll by Stephen Phillips may have a place in dramatic history. However, its lack of semblance to life makes its revival now by so fine an actress as Jane Cowl a little difficult to understand. To interest the modern playgoer in the doom of these two familiar poetic figures, a little more of Dante's fire is needed...
Vengeance to Foch. "However highly President von Hindenburg may esteem Foch as a military man, the German people simply would not understand why he should pay tribute to the man who at Compiegne so deeply humiliated the German Armistice Commission. It is not his qualities of a soldier that we question but the manner in which he 'rubbed in' his authority...
...Back home there may have been a law against enjoying ourselves the way we wanted to, but there's none here!" "My dear Sam, it's a matter of keeping one's self-respect . . ." Finally came the dismal feminine finish: "Oh, you simply can't understand...