Word: understands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acquainted with the facts of my husband's overdrawn checks-and cannot blame those involved-as I understand he had an opportunity to make good. ' I, of course, did not know Harold at that time-I was with my show in Mexico where I met him in November...
...incumbent upon him to dog the innocent tracks of Jon Hall, native swimmer, sailor, lover, and physical specimen extraordinary, Mr. Carradine taking a sadistic pleasure in trying to break the will of the same. And all the while Mr. Hall is suffering from the folly he does not understand, a lovely wife, Dorothy Lamour, is waiting on the island paradise of Manukura for the end of her husband's ever increasing prison term...
...understand that these employees have chosen a union to bargain for them, and that this union has presented certain demands which you have before you. As students in the University, we feel that working conditions of those who serve us should be decent and fair. We endorse the action of the employees in seeking this end and hope that you will give their demands serious consideration...
...blue cap when he made him first mate of the fishing schooner; after that Terangi was happier than ever. His happiness reached a vivid, lyric pinnacle when he was married in the Catholic church, in front of all the island, to his love, Marama (Dorothy Lamour). He did not understand her nightmare a few nights later when she dreamt of a high wind and birds flying away. Its omen seemed to have no bearing on the six-months' jail sentence he drew on his next trip for hitting a white bully in a waterfront saloon...
Human Sensibilities. "I find it rather difficult to understand why human beings are so inordinately sensitive about themselves as animal organisms, as contrasted with their comparative callousness in regard to their conduct, their institutions, and all of their extra-organic manifestations...