Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remarking of the Anti-Saloon League: "Let me be understood clearly. I find that their methods are not distinguished by meticulous regard to limits imposed by facts...
...Andrew Volstead,* now a minor legal official (in St. Paul) in the prohibition unit, presented its plans for better enforcement to Congress. A bill was sent by Secretary Mellon to Senator Smpot setting up a Bureau of Prohibition separate from the Internal Revenue Bureau. Other Administrative measures were understood to be in the process of formulations have been convicted of offenses including murder, violation of the Mann white slave act, annoying women, a fake holdup, negligent homicide in connection with the death of a young woman riding with an agent in an automobile, extortion of $40 from a Jewish rabbi...
Lady Diana. Chicagoans marveled at the beauty of Lady Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners Duff-Cooper, understood why Britain pets and serves her as its fairest daughter. A slip of a woman in her early thirties, colored in delicate pastel, she sustains the fame of the women of her late father's house of Rutland. In the 18th Century, Mary Isabella, "the beautiful duchess," sat four times to Sir Joshua Reynolds. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall, whom Lady Diana is said to resemble most and whose device and motto she uses (a peacock rampant, subscribed Pour y parvenir), bobbed...
Last week it was understood that President Calles was about to set his hand to an alien land and petroleum law which would violate the U.S.-Mexican understanding. It was even rumored that President Calles had already signed these bills. At Washington the situation was considered not only grave but exceedingly awkward...
Strange freak of nature, that those great holocaustic agencies that affect man most, should be so little understood by him while they exist. Mankind must forever await patiently the future which shall interpret the past in retrospect. The question, "Who began the war?" must remain for the present as impenetrable a mystery as its correlative...