Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Please to be informed there is no race track in operation in Cincinnati or in Hamilton County of which Cincinnati is the county seat. Latonia race track is not far from Cincinnati, but it is located in Kentuck, in which state, I understand, betting on race horses is not illegal...
Jiddu Krishnamurti, "World Teacher," announced the dissolution of the Order of the Star in the East, theosophical brotherhood founded in India in 1910. He explained: "The Truth needs no disciples. It wants nothing from any man. Only a few will understand, and they need no organization...
...understand that a resignation has been extorted from Lord Lloyd?" boomed aggressive Winston Churchill, M. P., lately Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, now among the political "outs." For weeks it has been evident that "Winnie" Churchill hopes to crowd out placid Stanley Baldwin -as leader of the British Conservative party, is trying to do so by a display of his battling prowess in debate. Sweeping the momentarily silent Government Bench with an outraged glance, Mr. Churchill fairly growled his question a second time: "Has a resignation been extorted from Lord Lloyd...
...price rumor was Godfrey Locker-Lampson, M. P., Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the recently-ousted Baldwin Cabinet. His family had long owned the bust. He had lately sold it to a dealer for "just over $2,500." Said he: ''The firm . . . resold it, I understand, for a modest profit...
Producers ignore Equity. They feel that Hollywood's night labor and freakish habits are elements in a new industry which Equity cannot be expected to understand, which have been justified by that industry's prosperity. Director Lionel Barrymore likened Equity's campaign to a major operation on a child...