Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your Jan. 22 issue . . . you use the word "schmalz" in connection with Enrico Caruso Jr. We are sorry to say we do not understand the expression...
...necessary to keep in mind that there is no fundamental difference between our people and the State, that this is a new historical fact and naturally difficult for other countries to understand...
...English, he says, are not dull, plodding, humdrum, hardworking. They are constitutionally indolent, and being at peace with nature find it hard to understand other people, like the Germans, who are not. So the English are always caught unprepared and forced to make up for lost time by their resourcefulness, inventiveness, self-reliance. Far from being plodders, they are creative, imaginative, the most brilliant modern nation "with the single possible exception of the French...
...shop, in a remodeled brick office building on Washington's Florida Avenue, there was no U.S. school of postgraduate calibre which undertook: 1) to give prospective diplomats and foreign traders highly individualized, up-to-the-minute training for specific jobs abroad; 2) to help the diplomats and businessmen understand each other's problems...
...Edna Ferber is white-haired, handsome and still single. She attributes her fabulous success to the fact that "I write about fundamental things-love, marriage, hardship, vitality, country -the things writers used to spit at." Besides this, she explains, "I try to write in language people can understand. Not primer stuff, but simple language and thoughts everybody has." One of Author Ferber's prime annoyances (it has been bothering her for years) is the opprobrium which she feels is attached in the U.S. to the term "best-seller." "What's wrong with writing a book that lots...