Word: understands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always seemed to me that a picture taken of a fighter at the end of a fight is more newsworthy than a posed photo showing him sleeked, shaved, unmarked and I never could understand how Jack Dempsey, with his penchant for collecting black eyes in matched pairs always managed to put off the "boys with the cameras" until the shiners had disappeared. . . . L. BERGAN...
...Angeles Federal jury convicted Mrs. Violet Wells Norton of fraudulently demanding money from Cinemactor Clark Gable on the ground that he as "Frank Billings" was the father of her illegitimate daughter Gwendoline born in England in 1923. Wrote Mrs. Norton to Gable last March: "You and I understand each other. We could have a swell time...
...each dance Miss Mader performed the conventional pan (bow), lifting her arms shoulder high, thrusting her right foot forward and putting the weight on her left. A large sprinkling of Hawaiians shouted interminable hikis, the equivalent of "bravo." People who do not understand Hawaiian were most amused by Miss Mader's Roosevelt Dance which she sang in English. When the President visited Hawaii three years...
...learned it at school and he was the only one in Piana dia Greci who knew it. Everyone else was a descendant of the first colony of Albanian Greeks who came there during the war in 1488 and spoke Italian or a bastard Greek, which no Athenian could understand today. Then he gave me goat's milk and blessed me; asked me to take his picture, and so I did. Thus endeth my great trip adventure of exploration, a sad failure. But tomorrow I go to Syracuse to whistle in Dionysius' Ear, see Venus Anadyomene, and bask in the memory...
...Understand I am for President Roosevelt and his policies, absolutely...