Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would print the facts of the fiend being found and properly punished, which in my estimation deserves the same treatment he gave the poor dog. I might add that I could do the punishing myself, I believe, and not feel a qualm at his suffering. As you can understand I am fond of dogs, have seen so much of their intelligence and this treatment of a dog, no matter what kind or where, has made me wish to know that the party responsible is caught and not given a fine, but a severe punishment, one that will make him cringe...
...which the business of "unhand that woman" and "the viper beats my mother" is used with proper gusto. Genuine bank-robbers bring excitement to the closing sequences, in which Oakie proves that his heroism is more than histrionic. Typical shot: Pallette, as a pseudo-Sioux chief, trying to understand why, if a girl is Sue (Sioux) her father is not Sioux also...
...sees them as a race of men who in one hand hold a knife over the head of a fair daughter, and in the other grasp a bottle of Vodka with which to wash away memory of the ugly deed. And the nobility, they carry on scandalously. Understand that this is only an impression gained of Russia which the Vagabond has created from his readings. He is a highly imaginative fellow with a passion for the sordid...
Immediately arose an excited chorus of Tammany's other women leaders: "We don't do anything like that in my district. . . . Why, I never heard of such a thing! ... I can't understand why Annie said anything like that. . . . That sort of thing is entirely foreign to me. . . . No, I don't agree with her at all. ... It was a great shock to me. . .. Only one judge comes from my district and he didn't give me a present and he isn't a rotter...
...returned to New York, gone to bed with a bad cold when she received Mrs. Nicholson's challenge. She would have gladly accepted it, she said, had she been given sufficient notice. To the Dry leader she replied: "You express dread of liquor 'openly dispensed.' Am I to understand that the fact that at present liquor is being secretly dispensed the length and breadth of the country is a matter of indifference to you? I cannot help but be amused by your other state- ments. . . . Why is it that Prohibitionists refuse to discuss conditions as they are today...