Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most important of all, Mr. Rose would have it understood that this recently achieved neutrality is not only more profitable to the publishers, but fairer to the public. Since the supporting of definite political policies is part of the function of a conscientious press, a leaning towards either one party or the other is, however, a necessity. Partisanship which confines itself to the editorial page is as defensible as the party system itself. The professedly non-partisan journals have chosen to vacillate rather than offend their advertisers...
...when Raymond Weaver from his cloistered Morningside attempts to place the spark of real life in the bodies of some soul savers at Kurodani in the Island Empire, one feels an interest akin to that aroused by a study of any community of gods or devils, not yet quite understood by the world at large...
...Musical Studio's system of having a chorus always present on the stage as a background for the rest of the music is undoubtedly a great step forward. Other composers have understood the principle, but have failed to see how the chorus could be present without awkwardness...
...stirred mingled feelings within me. ... It was my duty to meet him, however . . . [and] at Locarno we spoke 'European.' It is a new language which all the world must learn! I commend it to you for study, my friends?even if it is not yet certain that the Germans understood it. ... I do not pretend that the Locarno agreement realized absolute security for France. If some one asks me whether this agreement dispenses with measures of security my answer is 'No, it does not.' But if we had not the Locarno Pact, what would be our situation in Europe...
...said to have ordered the burial to take place in May, when Lady Zaharoff's favorite flowers will be in bloom. He is understood to have declared that he will never visit Monte Carlo again, lest he be reminded unbearably of the days he spent there with...