Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concentrate. This went on for 30 minutes. "Then I became a little angry, I suppose. So I said he was interfering with the game - and that was all there was to it. "I merely told him he was a novice at the pastime. 'You'll understand it when you grow up,' I said. "I liked Prince George. But the Prince of Wales is very talkative. Both he and his brother have high voices. When he threw dice he called the number six, 'klix.' "The Prince to whom I am engaged [Model Kane said...
...cabaret rattles, this is one of the best directed and most gruesome of War pictures. High credit should go to Director G. W. Pabst who with small resources made a picture that in every technical respect except sound can compete with the best Hollywood product. U. S. spectators can understand it in spite of the German dialog, for the action of trench-warfare is pantomimic enough to be self-explanatory; they will find in it the nervous impact of unbearable physical horror. Comrades of 1918 is an argument against war and it points its theme less editorially than All Quiet...
...providing an adequate range to satisfy both the more and less advanced students. Moreover, the German sections would provide at least one regular undergraduate course conducted completely in German, of which there is none now. The English sections would stimulate the student who reads the language but does not understand spoken German rather than bore him the way the present translation courses do. They acquaint him with all the masterpieces of German literature and their influence rather than hold him responsible for meticulous translation of the works of a few authors. There are certainly men in the department at present...
...quite surprising," she remarked, "how much actresses read. Usually it is something of the better sort. What is more, they generally understand it. One time when I was playing in a show with Helen Morgan, she borrowed a copy of 'Zuleka Dobson' to read: having previously been told that it was one of the more notable books. After she had progressed about half way through it she turned to me and said with some surprise and consternation, 'Why, Sally, this book is funny...
...political man at all and I do not understand politics, but I am a soldier, and as a soldier I see that Bolshevism constitutes a grave military danger to my country. That is enough...