Word: understands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some broken toy or picture-book, of no great value to the owner, that would serve as a symbol for this purpose. The collections could be made in a few afternoons, at small expense; and the language of bonfires seems to be the only one that Germans at present understand. If these mass-demonstrations were on a scale sufficiently large, they would suggest that democracy has something to say. The question of an embargo would soon take care of itself if the phrase "Made in Germany" became a general synonym for all that is contemptible and base...
...Hopkins. They were at the Empire [City] race track in Yonkers at the time. . . . Had I not verified it and been assured that it was said seriously, I should not have reprinted the remark. I am sorry Mr. Hopkins is embarrassed by the publication, and I can well understand that it may cause special difficulties with the Senate if he is nominated to the Cabinet. But, since I know the informant to be accurate, and since his recreational associations with Mr. Hopkins are very close, I can only conclude that Mr. Hopkins has forgotten the incident, though he should easily...
...practice. After this violent baptism, he was separated from music and sent to study for four years at the National Academy of Design. At the end of that time he was 18 and an accomplished draftsman, but he quit Art cold. Says he, "I just couldn't understand what painting...
...Ernest Thompson Seton and his second wife, Julia Buttree Seton, 49, proudly announced that they were the parents of a five-month-old daughter, Beulah. Said Mrs. Seton: "People do look askance at us, and want to know if Beulah isn't our adopted daughter. They do not understand that Mr. Seton, despite his age, is just as youthful mentally, physically and spiritually as he has ever been." Interviewed again by a newshawk who had discovered that last June in Santa Fe they had filed adoption papers for the child, she said: "We were going to make the adoption...
Other biographers, unable to understand how Coolidge got into the White House in the first place, have emphasized "Coolidge luck." Author White explains it more intelligibly in terms of post-War psychology, which, unwilling to face the realities of a changed world, picked Coolidge as the best equipped to lead an escape to the past...