Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loggerheads in its day this encounter was buoyed up by an old and interesting tradition Football, like wine, is poor stuff until it has been aged. I would not go across the room to turn a radio dial for the sake of hearing Ohio State and Northwestern. Not, you understand, that these institutions are not admirable, but their rivalry is of much too recent a vintage to be very thrilling...
...against Harvard. It seems to me a tragic thing that these three fine old ladies must now go hungry since the source of their income has been cut off. And the worst of it is that their ordeal is imposed for a matter of petty pride. Princeton, as I understand it, felt that Harvard was too high hat. Whether or not this complaint is well founded makes very little difference. It is never necessary to establish a complete case in order to set up a symbol. To Princeton, Harvard became the archtype or token of snobbery and superciliousness...
...Leader, he had begun a long journalistic stint. He had worked on the New York Times, the Tribune, the Call, the World. When he was Sunday editor of the World, Editor Weitzenkorn saw some funny Yiddish dialect by one of his cartoonists. Colleagues said nobody outside The Bronx would understand it but Editor Weitzenkorn printed and let millions laugh at Milt Gross's "Nize Baby...
...musical affairs. It is further noteworthy for the announcement that Mr. Arthur Whiting will give a series of concerts of chamber music this winter. Those who have followed in past years the Whiting concerts realize their importance. The men who will be introduced to them this winter will soon understand both the sorrow which met the announcement a year ago that 1928-1929 was to be their final season, and the sincere satisfaction and gratitude with which Mr. Whiting is rewelcomed this year--as Harvard hopes, not for the last time...
Despite unwieldy complications, the plot is not a bad one for a melodrama. One has to understand (and stand for) certain conventions in the best of bloody melodramas. The locale is a little town in England, in the dusty shadows of the cathedral close. It is a good stage for a mystery, though one might accuse Mr. Reeve of overdoing the underground passage and hidden chapels a bit for his effect. The story moves swiftly enough, although it might have been better-handled...