Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred potent citizens of Milan-bankers, industrialists and men of science -sat down to luncheon, with a U. S. guest of honor who piqued their curiosity. He was, they understood, a financier whose unusual hobby is to acquire control of clean, smart, pedigreed industries. At present Mr. Aldred and his associates are the bankers for the firms which produce razors stamped "Gillette," silverware with the venerable Manhattan hall mark "Gorham," and U.S.-made motor cars bearing the nameplate "Rolls-Royce." Clearly this guest, this Signor John E. Aldred, was worthy of Italian observation. Especially so, because today the Manhattan financial...
...when the girl attendant handed him a copy of the Hearst Times, he spelled it out for her in a loud voice. There seems to be no reason for such blatant, goatlike manners. If he used such mannersin ordering a copy of Liberty, or Snappy Stories, it could be understood, but not with TIME. Furthermore, I have been buying magazines and newspapers at the local stand in the Statler for many months, and never have I found it necessary to bellow or spell the name of the publication desired, as the intelligence of the young ladies employed there is high...
...Lindbergh" is a synonym for aviation, the meaning of which is much more readily understood by the youth of today, therefore why have an aviation week at all? Why not make it "Lindbergh Week" so that the tie between this hero's name and aviation may never be severed...
...board, the captain then becoming (to use a military simile) the admiral's chief of staff. Ordinarily the possibilities of friction which lurk in such an interlocked command are smoothed over by the formulae of tradition. Last week, however, the captain and commander of the Royal Oak were understood to have filed complaints with the Admiralty alleging that Rear Admiral Collars had grossly and persistently overstepped the bounds of his authority and shamefully browbeaten his inferiors. Pending an investigation, all three officers were suspended, last week, and ordered to hurry from Malta to London, there to give an account...
...rest of the issue contains poetry, prose, book and theatre reviews. The poetry shows technical skill and sounds very well, but would it be too much to ask that the Advocate print some time, just for fun, a poem which could be understood by the ordinary lay mind after a single reading...