Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friend, Mrs. Herbert Hoover. Then he said: "Of course, I cannot say very much of Mrs. Smith, because I have never known her, but if the contest was between Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Smith-He did not finish the sentence but the Republican ladies of Springfield thought they understood and applauded knowingly, enthusiastically...
Those three words have been explained until their meaning in international law is perilously close to nil, but they are still three words, three resounding words. They will be understood by many U. S. voters as meaning NO MORE WAR. If they should ever come to have that meaning to all the peoples of the World, the explanations, reservations and quibbles of statesmen will fall away like husks and Frank Billings Kellogg will have triumphed indeed...
Paris Party. During the week it was understood that Secretary Kellogg will sail next month on the S. S. George Washington-the ship that carried President Woodrow Wilson-and participate at Paris in multilateral signing of his Treaty...
Postmistress Esther McCollum of Conyers, Ga., told that she had always understood she must pay 5% of her salary, or some $100 per annum, into the campaign chest of the Republicans responsible for her appointment...
...logic must have offended, threw a concluding sop to women: "Though a woman may not take a revealed part in the conduct of affairs, we need not fall into the error of supposing that she has no influence in deciding them. ... I can make my meaning more easily understood by repeating a remark made by the Duchess of Burgundy to Madame de Maintenon. 'Do you know,' she said, 'why the queens of England have ruled so much better than the kings? It is because men govern under women's guidance, whereas women rule by the advice...