Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newsmen Mr. Legge said: "You may present my compliments to Max and Louis and tell them I said they can go to Hell. . . . The expression I used is one farmers understand. My listeners got the idea I was conveying that Governor Reed is putting Kansas in that position. I can't say I was wholly faultless in peeving Governor Reed but I couldn't let him get away with that...
...whole of this is a melancholy thing which is unnecessary and foolish. Men who are going to be governors of states and responsible for administration ought to look ahead and understand the conditions under which alone evolution and change are possible...
...mother was Emma Kennedy, the daughter of a distinguished Coloradoan. She married a good-natured Irish barber who, like herself, was deaf & dumb. Lon, the second of four normal children, left school at the age of nine to take care of her. He could make his mother understand him by contorting his face into significant expressions. At 13 he went to work as a guide to tourists on Pike's Peak. Later he was carpet-layer, stage hand, vaudevillist. He married his singing and dancing partner; their son is a lawyer in Hollywood...
...topic was to be common with the Anglican Bishops at Lambeth* and the Congregationalists at Bournemouth, 107 miles away: church union in India. The handicap of Christian missionaries in India as well as elsewhere is that the heathen cannot understand the competition between Christian denominations. In India there are now a South India United Church (formed by Congregational, Presbyterian and Reformed converts), a Wesleyan Methodist Church of South India, an Anglican (Episcopalian) Church of India, Burma & Ceylon. The hope of these three Christian churches in India merging soon is good, because their vested interests are neither old nor extensive, because...
...help censor the men's letters to their families. One private's words, mystic, poetical, moved him very much. When the man was killed, Carossa took his papers, read one of the poems to the company when they were under shellfire in the open. The men did not understand it but they said they liked it, it made them feel better...