Word: understands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt the warmest reception of his trip. There, as in other towns along his way, he saw good clothes, smiling faces, rows of new automobiles, was assured that, though crops had failed, Fed- eral relief money spent on neighborhood building and conservation projects had kept things humming. "I understand," cried he, "some people are not in favor of planning for the future. I understand some people object to spending now in order to save for the future. But it is real economy if you spend $1,000,000 now to save $10,000,000 later...
...originally scheduled to carry a fetching picture of Mrs. Simpson with a dog in her arms. In Europe the story broke as soon as the King and Mrs. Simpson began to go shopping in small Yugoslavian waterfront towns, she speaking for him in German which some of the villagers understand.* At Sibenik the King and Mrs. Simpson picked out three dolls, total cost of which was only 15 dinars. His Majesty paid with a 20 dinar bill (50?) and Mrs. Simpson said in German, "Keep the change." The King also bought a Yugoslavian fisherman's coarse shirt...
...game was played at night, announced by a German who did not understand it. When it was over, a Nazi baseball expert described it: "Baseball began its successful career in the countries surrounding the Pacific Ocean. Both teams appeared with nine players. The team with red stockings attacked first...
...Miserable Sarah breaks in on the good-hearted soft-headed assemblage with words of cruel wisdom. Groaning heavily, she tells Ben that he has a thin skin "and a thin skin is easy scratched and easy tickled...Play the fool when you come to something you don't understand...If you must play games, choose the one you're good at." Ben's parents are drowned and he is taken in by a pious uncle who soon goes to a Mental Home for Clergymen. Befriended by the fashionable Mrs. Molly, Ben is sent off to school, studies...
...work in the mines. He soon found himself a leading figure among the miners. He made up with Mudarra grudgingly, killed a police spy who had unmasked his friend. But he learned that forgiveness of Lucia came slowly, vanished many times in the course of a marriage, did not understand his own love for her until after the Asturian revolt had been defeated, Moorish troops had entered the country and he and Lucia had escaped across the mountains toward their homeland...