Word: understood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worldly Goods. One fact not generally understood is that the Salvation Army, sometimes called the church of the unchurched, is just as definitely a religious body as, for example, the Methodist Church, from which it is a sturdy sprout. Its soldiers are its parishioners-generally people with regular jobs, who have made the army their avocation. The officers, who have dedicated their lives completely to the cause, are regular ordained ministers. Few of them are intellectuals; all have heard what they describe simply as "a call from...
Higgledy-Piggledy. But of course, added Berlin, "many of these excellent young people could not . . . either read or write, as these activities are understood in our best universities. That is to say, their thoughts came higgledy-piggledy out of the big, buzzing, booming confusion of their minds, too many pouring out chaotically in the same instant . . . Somewhere in their early education there was a failure to order, to connect and to discriminate...
...fell from his horse. As a result of this accident, he became mad and continued to play the part in a setting created by his friends--exactly like that of the historical Henry IV. After twelve years he regained objectivity but preferred to continue playing the emperor. If I understood correctly, the degree of his lucidity varies from time to time: Pirandello wanted to show that we are different people under different circumstances. He made further use of this situation for ironical comments on self-deception...
Alexander Knox has written a play that lacks only a soaring bat flapping about the stage. Be it understood that there is nothing wrong in that. If a playwright can arrange to have unknown hands reach out from doors, a Big Ben-like clock strike off-stage at tense moments, and blood trickle over door sills,--if he can work all of these (and more, as in this case) into his script without causing his audience to titter at the overlarding, then hooray...
...Democratic farm bill was a bonanza for farmers and a political
candy cane for politicians. Probably few but farm-country politicians
fully understood it, but no one would have any trouble recognizing its
effects: