Word: understands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...governed cities in the land. Charlie Taft told the story two years ago in City Management: The Cincinnati Experiment.† Out of the fight he carried an abiding hatred of political spoilsmen, an abiding conviction that lasting reform can be achieved only when the electorate has been taught to understand and want...
Denverites liked his looks, which suggest Cinemactor Warner Oland playing Charlie Chan. Quick with compliments, Editor Davis got off on the right foot by saluting Denver as "the civilized capital of a glamorous, robust Rocky Mountain Empire with a culture of its own which I hope to understand and enter into...
...antique Greek and Roman art. In 1912 "Hen Opp" laid the keel of his collection of Old Masters' sketches when he made an extensive purchase from the Heseltine collection. Cultivating the friendship of art experts like the National Gallery's Director Sir Charles Holmes, who could never understand how "a man of such essential goodness could have amassed a fortune in the City," Collector Oppenheimer became himself an expert. For his own collection, he bought nothing but famed, time-honored drawings of unquestioned value, finally had to move to a bigger house to get all his art possessions...
...Nose-Thumber Greiser was told: "You should have seen the faces of the delegates to the League Council. Ja, you just should have seen their faces! . . . Our success in Geneva is having profound effect. We would welcome the appointment of a German as High Commissioner, since a German would understand the situation in Danzig-or even an American would be all right...
...asked for a helpmeet who would understand me. He came and was young enough to be as inexperienced in the fundamentals of mating as Old Maid Janis was at 42. Result: Four years of two being one completely, and now an understanding of what is what. He is young enough to make a new life for himself, if orders are such...