Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cried apple-cheeked Gretchen: "Please, mother! Please, Please, PLEASE!! You don't understand. We're not 'white slaves' or anything so silly. We're going to Buenos Aires to dance in the best cafe, and we've all got contracts! It's perfectly all right...
...impossible to understand what is going on in Russia today unless one takes into consideration the philosophy that lies behind it," continued Mr. Karpovich. "The whole thing is entirely misleading, for it is wrong to think of the famous five year plan of the Soviet as if it were a business proposition, just a scheme of economic reconstruction, and the economic plan itself is only one part of the general scheme sometimes referred to as the 'Russian Experiment.' This expression is again misleading. The Russian people are not experimenting--they are being experimented upon by a political organization. The Soviet...
...apples was a Roman, dish, also duck and turnip. The Romans had no sugar, used honey. Honey and cheese made a delicate dish. Pepper was new to them. They used it profusely. Cinnamon they knew but used it at burials, not in the kitchen. When Dr. Wilson could not understand a recipe, she prepared the dish in her own kitchen. Gently proud was she last week of the "gentlemen and scholars who have relished my old cookery...
...roles he seemed like a painting of Hui Tsung miraculously come to elastic, undulating life. His dances with swords and wands possessed an extraordinarily feline continuity of movement. His falsetto was harsh but expressive. Watching his gait, his play with hands and voluminous sleeves, his tender coquetry, you could understand why Chinese poets have written panegyrics about his eye, smile, shoulder, even his waist...
...easily be a very low mark and the course ends in a sense of weariness and disappointment. A course that should be an exhilirating experience for mind and spirit is reduced to a bitter one by the stupidity of some tutorial person who makes out the questions--who cannot understand that he is dealing with a growing organism which needs light and air and not dust and ashes...