Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courage of Sandino," said Excelsior, "is not understood by vile souls incapable of gentlemanly acts, who would have placed in the electric chair even Don Quixote as a punishment for his most gallant adventures...
Like all poets, he finds language inadequate; is forced back upon "match-ends of burnt experience human enough to be understood." But from his match-ends he extracts white heat, terrific convulsions, monstrous images, without more linguistic violence than a harsh ellipsis and radical translations of character. He pictures...
...terms "President" and Vice President," when used in connection with the Irish Free State are exactly synonymous with "Premier" and "Vice Premier," as those titles are everywhere understood. Technically Premier Poincare is "President of the Council of Ministers of the French Republic" ; and the full title of Mr. Cosgrave is "President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State." He is called simply "President" (occasionally even by the U. S. State Department in official communications) purely as a courtesy title...
...they jabber at one another in a wild jargon, which appears at first glance totally incomprehensible; at second and ensuing glances, astonishingly familiar and funny. Author Gross, frizz-headed young feature man on the New York World, has been called, not without basis, a "great stylist." He is best understood when read aloud...
...reach the cold ones, Mr. Buchman invented an evangelizing process that still is little understood. He uses the intimate interview, the personal exhortation. And he has been effective. His adepts stop at nothing in telling their experiences. It becomes a goal for them to reveal their sins, to bare their private pollutions...