Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens were proud of him, suspected nothing until his last year in office when ugly stories of graft and corruption began to seep from City Hall. A grand jury investigated, found that racketeers were paying City Hall officials for police protection for certain gambling slot-machines. Scrantonians could not understand why Mayor Jermyn, already possessed of ample means, should stoop to racketeer graft...
...take no notice of the fact that the women dentists met in Denver at the same time and had an election also. I am neither business nor professional woman, nor do I know the head of either organization; but I like to see women receive due recognition. I understand that the women and men dentists work together and are all associated. Dr. Stella Risser of Houston, Tex., was elected President of the American Association of Women Dentists to succeed Dr. Mildred Dickerson of Washington, D. C. Both these women rank right along with the most eminent men of their profession...
With these activities in mind, soothingly counselled the sage Manchester Guardian: "Churchill and his school do not understand the changes that have lately come about in India and Egypt. They think of Kipling's India, but that is as dead as mutton. In its place stands a disorganized, feverish mass of people. . . . determined to manage their own affairs...
...upperclass politician and the political boss who defeated him; a university president and a disgruntled instructor whom he has dismissed; two lovers who have quarreled over valuable real estate. Invited by anonymous telegrams, as they arrive each thinks one of the others is host. None of them can understand why they have been brought in the company of their adversaries. Suddenly a radio loudspeaker informs them that they are prisoners, that one by one each shall die defeated by his or her secret viciousness, that if anyone is clever enough to outwit the host, he, will perish in the presence...
Love in the Ring (Terra-Ton). Max Schmeling made this picture while he was at home in Germany last year, several months before he won the world's heavyweight championship on a foul from Jack Sharkey in Manhattan (TiME, June 23). One does not have to understand German to follow the occasional dialog sequences, so simple is the story of a fighter momentarily distracted from his boyhood sweetheart by the wiles of attractive Olga Tschechowa. Fighter Schmeling, composed and earnest, is helped through his scenes by considerate direction; he is more convincing when amorous than during a tedious fight with...