Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London and U.S. Government at the London School of Economics, visited 40 States of the Union and written numerous articles and five books on U.S. affairs, including one of the best books on U.S. politics, Government of the People. His latest book, The American Character, is intended to explain Americans to Britons, but it is the U.S. Book-of-the-Month Club's November joint choice (with Herbert Best's Young...
...Hollywood Democratic Committee, which had sparked Styles's primary campaign, promptly disowned their candidate. So did the rabidly pro-Democratic Los Angeles Daily News. Los Angeles' P.A.C. still stood by him. Styles tried to explain, somewhat lamely, that he had joined the Klan to expose it in the old New York Graphic. But this excuse fell through when it turned out he had never been on the Graphic's payroll. Then he took another tack. He pictured himself as a changed man, compared himself to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black (whose onetime Klan connections almost kept...
...four p.m. Sunday [at the Autumn Salon] a thousand gaping people had passed through the Salle Picasso and some three hundred were in the room, when from one corner arose repeated shouts of "'Dérochez!" ("Take 'em down!"), answered by shouts from another corner, "Expliquez!" ("Explain!"), and from a third quarter, "Remboursez!" ("Money back!"). Numerous young men began carefully and nondestructively taking down the pictures from the wall...
...rabbits. One of them-ain't this witchcraft?-he found setting on eggs in his chicken coop. . . . And Mrs. Warren's books. There's a respectable widow woman for you, and a friend o' mine. All her books changed jackets one night. How do you explain that, young fellow-me-lads...
Some citizens actually took the Treasury's convenience measure to mean that they had to cash in their bonds. (One Philadelphia matron called her bank to explain that she could not get down that day and to ask if she could still get her money next day.) Some felt they need not hang on to their bonds any longer. One woman cashed in $1,000 worth "to bet on a race horse"; another got $75 to do her Christmas shopping "before the rest of the women pick over everything." A middle-aged couple cashed in $225 worth of bonds...