Word: understands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strictly speaking, the Capone residence is just outside Chicago, in ill-famed Cicero, Ill. But the Capone operations are inside the city limits. Chicago's police and Mr. Capone understand each other when a civic "cleanup" is afoot...
...proportionate amount of space to boosting the stock of Eastman Kodak Co., as witness your several lengthy stories of the phenomenal rise in the business world of George Eastman and his Kodaks; without, at the same time deigning to give even the briefest possible mention to Ansco, which, I understand, held most of the original patents and processes upon which the present Photographic Industry is based; nor have you ever, by the very least typographical impress, even so much as given a fact-hungry list of subscribers, newsstandbuyers, Junior Leaguers, et al., the faintest inkling concerning the merger of Agfa...
...further thought, it seemed to observers that if it were necessary to truckle in this fashion to ignorant laymen, prayer might better be omitted at Republican Conventions. It would be Utopian to imagine that the hordes of greedy politicians gathered there would understand or even hear speeches addressed to their Father in heaven. Why then should reverend gentlemen of several sects hold up their faiths for a mockery by delegates who thought denomination was two words? Such a question was implicit in the further writings of that impious buffoon who criticized the preachers...
Recognizing the seething ferment in American education today, "Better Schools" is an attempt to select for the layman and unspecialized teacher or school administrator some of the more outstanding and successful experiments, and to present them in a way that will help one to understand and profit by America's new school ways. They are remarkably successful in a non-technical way, and parents as well as educators of all ranks might profit by reading the material they present...
...steward asked him to go to the lounge where a British immigration official told him that he was not permitted to set foot on British soil. The only reason given him was "instructions from the Home Office." Befuddled, vexed, Mr. Thaw told reporters: "This is amazing. I cannot understand it at all. England was fair and square when I was here before, 23 years ago. ... I am a friend of Secretary Mellon. I have wired him. . . ." Later, Mr. Thaw obtained a French visa, left the Aquitania at Cherbourg, motored to Paris. But Secretary Mellon had not helped...