Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first soldier had been retired from command of the Canadian Army overseas. When reporters saw him at Quebec's swank Seigniory Club he looked in the pink. Said he: "There is nothing wrong with me. . . . It will be up to those who made statements about my health to explain them...
...beautiful per se, the noble emotion nobly expressed, but also his almost corybantic intelligence. From Solomon Sturges, on the other hand, Preston may have derived his exaggerated respect for plain success, which leaves him no patience towards artists of integrity who fail at the box office. The combination might explain his matchless skill in producing some of the most intoxicating bits of nihilism the screen has known, but always at the expense of a larger excellence...
...soon as one of the nearby soldiers, ears flapping, breaks down and asks whatthehell, the players grin and explain...
...heroines. And many a Potter phrase has become traditional-e.g., Jemima Puddle-Duck's foolish first thoughts on meeting a dashing stranger (who of course turns out to be a fox): "Jemima thought him mighty civil and handsome." Or the note left by the mice to explain why they had not finished the last buttonhole on the coat they made for the old tailor of Gloucester: "No more twist...
...date, no West Coast plants have been shut. And WPB took pains to explain that the ODT survey was only part of a nationwide checkup. But WPB also ominously predicted that, by the end of the year, one-quarter of U.S. aluminum-making facilities will be shut down. Against the possibility that further cutbacks may hit the Coast, Western Congressmen are whittling a political club, aimed at aluminum imports from Canada...