Word: understandables
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...intruded into a cultured society of books. And yet these same people say that it is proper to read Lewis Carroll because he is a relaxation for the mind. Why this should be considered a proper answer is another mystery, for it takes a good deal of thinking to understand. "Through the Looking Glass", but a detective story writer does all the reader's thinking...
...safe to assume, this much admitted, that a certain amount of learning is incompatible with education. The facts of the past are quite as important as the facts of the present and it is difficult to understand how even a clever undergraduate can use, this material if he insists upon speedily forgetting it as soon as he has successfully "ploughed through a course...
...used to sing "Where the River Shannon Flows" as he beat rugs in the back yard. They are pretty and melodious, but while not holding them to be directly the cause of the War, it is no libel to say that one has only to hear them to understand the why of jazz...
...Spanish War come to mind all the same. The gags are there to laugh at and undoubtedly present all the requisites of humor. At least they did thirty years ago. Yet if this is what the nineties found the height of the entertaining, it is not difficult to understand why the parents of today find it so hard to enjoy the ideas of the "present generation". But another thirty years and perhaps even the "Didn't-I-see-you-in-Buffalo" joke may have seen its best days...
...executed with a sure, skilful hand, with an ever-fresh touch, unhampered by schooling. Said Herbert Wafd: "But even if a man does ugly Negroes and knows what he is doing and manages to get his soul into it, there will some day come along the men who understand...