Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin had made a secret bargain on voting in the postwar World Assembly-and kept it secret. Six weeks after the sorry deal was struck at Yalta, the New York Herald Tribune sniffed out part of the story, and forced the White House to explain...
Robert Emmet Sherwood, moose-tall (6 ft. 7 in.) playwright (Idiot's Delight, etc.), more recently a Government employe (OWI and ghost writing for Franklin Roosevelt), returned from a seven-weeks look at the Pacific war for the Navy to explain why he is going back to playwriting : "After five years or more in public service, I'd like to start making a little money...
There is a nice lovestory hidden somewhere in the picture, and though there is practically no attempt really to explore or explain its possibilities, it somehow gets itself satisfactorily told. To a great extent Philip Barry, and Donald Ogden Stewart, who wrote the skilful screen play, are to be thanked for this. In spite of a painfully whimsical addiction to locutions like "by gum," they write several pieces of conversational love ping-pong and one jagged quarrel which make the average piece of would-be-sure-footed screen dialogue look like a sack-race on snowshoes...
LaGuardia, still curfused, still certain that a 12 o'clock curfew disrupted Manhattan's subway and bus systems, and that it would cause speakeasies to flower, made a nationwide radio speech to explain himself. He said that an hour of "tolerance" would make the curfew more easily enforced. Then he went on to plead that the city does not license bars which offer no entertainment, thus has no control over them. But nobody seemed to be listening...
There was not much to explain, really. On April 30, when he had asked to be relieved, his normal five-year tenure would still have three months to run. (The newsmen had heard the rumor that the Duke wanted to leave then because the Duchess could not stand the heat of the Bahamian summer. But the Duke said nothing about that.) Some distant day, said the Governor, he and the Duchess would like to return. "I have a deep affection for the Bahamas...