Word: understands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supposed to be definite assurance of your support . . . etc., etc." Candidate Willis professed not to understand that Mr. Maschke had politely dropped him. Mr. Maschke elucidated: "Senator Willis' attitude has changed completely since he first talked with me on this matter in my home in November. At that time he said he wanted the compliment of being Ohio's candidate. . . . Since then he has taken the position that none of his delegates can vote for anyone else...
...Smith, talk about Tolerance and "hope for the best at Houston." Mobile, Ala., threatened to waylay the Walker train if he did not stop there. Other eager cities were Winston-Salem, Montgomery, Birmingham. In New York, Candidate Smith pursued his policy of prayerful silence, hoping that Northern Negroes would understand why none of their race can be taken to Houston as delegates; hoping that the South will not mind if National Democratic Chair-man Clem L. Shaver should be ousted and replaced by Mayor Frank Hague of Jer sey City; hoping people noticed, last week, that John William Davis said...
...often given a cruel blow by the jibes of an unsympathetic critic. Having delivered himself upon the high altar of his art, to say nothing of the lucrative desk of defiled Mammon, the minor playright shudders at the crudity of those to whom it is not given to understand the scope of greatness. That criticism has constructive as well as destructive powers is forgotten by the mangled remains of budding genius forgotten also that there are standards which must be realized, a public that must be informed and protected...
...statesmen whose political complexions are if not red extremely pink. Their first act was to propose that military training shall be abandoned this year, and that the State shall undertake a national monopoly to buy and distribute grain. Has Norway then "gone Red?" To know her people is to understand how laughable is such a suggestion...
...This man took the wrong poet. He was a Senior and had been retained on the hockey squad for the first time, I understand. I gave him a D plus, which put him nicely...