Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second tract, called The Eighteenth Amendment: A message to young people, began: "Our country needs young people who understand the Eighteenth Amendment and its workings . . . young people whose opinions are so well grounded in fact that they will not be easily misled by false or one-sided arguments...
Father and Son (Columbia). Psychologists and the writers of fairy stories agree that the relationship between children and their stepmothers is apt to be complicated. The word "stepmother" itself implies so familiar and important a dramatic situation that it is hard to understand how even the most garbled reproduction of it could be wholly untrue. Only by ignoring his real material in favor of claptrap borrowed from other pictures has Director Erie Kenton been able to remove all traces of reality from this story which is told in gasps of silence and badly recorded, preposterously written dialog...
...quite understand the mystification of our French friends, who love all things clean cut and logical, in contemplating an arrangement of this kind which no logical brain could ever have created. The idea of States belonging to one political system, and yet having such elasticity that disagreement over matters of foreign policy is not altogether excluded, would be incomprehensible to many...
...smile on Mr. Moore's face while the photograph was being taken suggested that now at last his countrymen must understand why he, after having been U. S. Ambassador to glamorous Spain, was willing to accept the little Peruvian portfolio. There was work to be done at Lima. He was needed to settle the Tacna-Arica question. Now he had attended to that matter, under President Hoover's guidance, of course. All this his smile seemed to imply -but it really meant nothing of the kind. The so-called Hoover Solution awarding Arica and its nitrates to Chile...
...establishing, through the Association of American Rhodes Scholars, a George Eastman Visiting Professorship at Oxford University. Said Mr. Eastman: "I am desirous of doing something that will assist Englishmen and Colonials and particularly the group destined to play an important part in government, science, scholarship, journalism and industry to understand America. ... I do not forget that an Oxford experience will be immensely stimulating to the American appointee. . . ." The Rhodes professors will visit from one to five years, will be attached to Balliol College, which is scholastically prominent and famed as the intellectual crib of the late Herbert Henry Asquith...