Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real home, in other words a real marriage, is what we plan to have. I can't discuss companionate marriages because I can't understand how two persons could choose to live casually when they might settle down to making the most of their lives together...
...Well, I can't see. . . . Well, why don't you. . . . Wait a minute. . . . Sure . . . that's simple. . . . Why didn't you tell me that before. . . . Well, of course, if you do it that way. ... A baby could understand...
Reporters who went out last week to get copy about Berlin's free civic lipsticks, rouge and eyebrow pencils, were tolerantly received by Dr. M. Gumpert, director of the Bureau and a plastic surgeon of renown. They did not quite understand, he said. There will be no free "cosmetics" as that frivolous term is commonly understood. Instead, the Bureau will try earnestly and scientifically to render reasonably presentable poor folk who are now too repulsive in appearance to get work. Citing cases among the pitifully ugly and poor who applied to the Bureau on its opening day, Dr. Gumpert...
...protect Palestine Jews was sharply raised in London by-hard-featured, scrubby-bearded Dr. Chaim Weizmann, shrewd president of the World Zionist Organization. After an interview with Minister of Colonies and Mandates Baron Passfield (famed in his former style as Economist Sidney Webb), Dr. Weizmann gave correspondents to understand that the Cabinet would continue sternest measures to restore peace in Palestine, and might even dismiss Acting High Commissioner Harry Charles Luke, whom Zionists regard as chiefly responsible for allowing the situation to get out of hand. Subsequent intimations by Lord Passfield that Mr. Luke would not be dismissed...
...Sofia Minister Liaptcheff learned that his assailant had been arrested. He pondered a while, then sent this message: "I can understand the man's anger. It was largely my fault. ... I refuse to prosecute...