Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Psychology, neuroses, fixations. complexes and all the rest hava become so firmly fixed in the dinner conversation of the land that the play will be easily understood. These peculiar phenomena are dealt with in words of one syllable. An event in the hero's youth bites deep into his consciousness, is discovered and the poison let off in the approved modern fashion at the last...
Several months ago a call was issued to all members who were intending to submit books for the show It is understood that the competition this year has been exceptionally keen and Mr. Lord and the Graduate Committee have had the privilege of choosing from four or five first-rate manuscripts. What their ultimate choice will be is as yet not known, but it is expected that a decision will be reached within the next few days...
...Williams stated that this spiritual factor in the lives of the laborers, the knowledge that they were considered indispensable by somebody else, was a thing which must be realized if the labor problem was to be understood...
...Rosa Ponselle, in the white draperies of a vestal virgin, was fervently wooed by Edward Johnson, U. S. tenor, disguised as a Roman soldier in the Metropolitan's revival of La Vestale, a totally unoriginal opera written 100 years ago by Gasparo Spontini. Critics agree that this composer understood one thing- how to write for the voice. For the rest he depended on Gluck and what he could remember of Mozart. Elaborately staged, furbished with the faultless voice of Miss Ponselle, it will, they think, be popular...
...bench of the Court which is not a member of the League Council. When our representative is simply a judge helping to render the verdict in accordance with the evidence, or the technicalities of the law, is it not possible to suppose, unless the contrary is clearly understood before we enter the Court, that his vote may be taken to imply the approval or disapproval of the United States in some question that it is to our interest to avoid getting mixed up with...