Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noses of their babes in prams, left a wake of amazed comment: "Blimey! Imagine shaking hands with a Lord." He spoke briefly and snappily, closed by hoisting his hands overhead and shouting, "Don't let the old side down." His attractive mother, the Duchess, followed him to explain that, really, her boy was deeply interested in serious things like pensions for veterans...
...TIME, Dec. 6, 1943, which an American soldier gave me, there are some remarks on the attitude of Englishmen towards the U.S. men. I was very sad to read of this, and I want, if possible, to try and explain the position from our standpoint...
...Protests. Premier Hart did not explain just how the Dominion had acquired the Japanese farms. But this week in Vancouver it was reported that lawyers representing the Japanese were preparing to carry to the highest courts a protest against enforced sale of Japanese-owned residential properties...
...whom they cannot locate. And when they make friends with Stella (pretty newcomer Gail Russell), granddaughter of the man they bought the house from, candleflames wither, an odor of mimosa pervades the room, the young girl rushes out and is barely prevented from diving off a cliff. She cannot explain why. The answer, as Stella and the Fitzgeralds discover when they stage a seance, is that they are caught in the spectral cross fire of a pair of feuding nether worldlings. By the time the ghosts are laid, the scare-voltage is so high that the spooks seem as close...
Most chillers overcrowd the screen with werewolves or explain away all supernatural antics as the deliberate hocus-pocus of a mad scientist, estate-grabber or Axis agent. The Uninvited blends the everyday with the inexplicable, gets a lot of its best scares out of the everyday. The skittering of a squirrel across the drumhead floors of the vacant house suddenly gives vacancy a cold portentousness. The scraping of a wine glass against a table, during the seance, is more scary than the seance itself. The unexpected smashing of a window while you are watching a rather good Paramount ghost rasps...