Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps only Englishmen completely understood. At West Hartlepool, fighting Laborite John R. Clynes, M. P., loyally said of H. R, H.'s tour...
...ceremonials began there arrived as Dharmadhikari or High Priest the Pundit Vishnu Raghunath Karandikar, representing the Hindu Primate, His Holiness Jagadguru Shankaracharya, who was simultaneously understood to be offering potent prayers for the babe in India. Presently the Goddess of Destiny was invited to enter the birth chamber and inscribe upon the forehead of the newborn child its fate. When a decent interval had elapsed, Pundit Karandikar went in to see what had happened, and clearly beheld upon the infant's brow these prophecies, or rather ordinations of the Goddess: 1.) "She will be an artistic genius, witty...
...film audiences may not know much about the technique of the stockmarket, Paramount has kept as simple as possible this story about the big trader who is a sucker in love. The Wolf explains stratagems to his partners with a blackboard and pointer in a way that can be understood by anyone who can cut out a paper doll. That this will bore persons familiar with Wall Street methods is unlikely, however, for Mrs. Wolf's infidelities are effectively and seductively acted by Olga Baclanova. Best shot : Miss Baclanova biting her honey's ear. Olga Baclanova...
...understood that yesterday's developments were brought to their culmination only by the action of the Lampoon itself. The attitude of the University towards the Lampoon, it was learned, was one of indifferent quiescence as long as the Lampoon held to innocuous humor, but when the straw that broke the camel's back, in the form of Lampy's most recent indiscretions entered the situation, the college authorities reached the conclusion that, foreclosure of the mortgage was the only action compatible with Harvard dignity...
...Lampoon building is admirably adapted for an eating hall, for it contains an excellently appointed large room, with culinary equipment in Arthur's restaurant in the basement. The president's office, it is understood, will be used as a cloakroom for the inhabitants of the "Gold Coast House". According to present plans, the University will incorporate Claverly, Randolph, and possibly Russell, into one House. What disposition will be made of Benjamin Hyte's tailoring shop has not yet been announced. Bob Lampoon, for so many years the power-behind-the-throne and genuis of all Lampoon wit will be accepted...