Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ladder: any fool knows what a ladder is--no need to explain...
...Cobbler's Basement. A Cincinnati shoemaker was accused of having lured a young girl into his basement shop and killed her. Police dug into the shop's dirt floor, found an amazing collection of bones that seemed to explain a whole series of recent unsolved crimes. When they took the bones to Professor Krogman, he quickly identified them as those of a cow, five sheep, a turkey, a rat, a pigeon, a barn...
Craig went on to explain that he had achieved all this by getting rid of the present "scanning" principle of television cameras. In translating an image into electrical impulses for broadcasting, the usual television camera "scans" the whole image in no fewer than 240,000 separate impressions. These are recorded separately, in series, all within the space of a 30th of a second. This requires intense lighting, considerable power, and such high speed in transmission that a television broadcast must use a wide band of wave frequencies, room for which can be found only in the high-frequency wave lengths...
...study before dinner as a high point of his day. He has grown almost impervious to political criticism. He rarely becomes angry at all-and then it is usually when somebody snipes at him through one of his children. The four Roosevelt sons in service help explain the President's great sensitiveness to the casualty lists-always the first thing he asks about when told of a battle.* That sensitiveness, in turn, his intimates say, helps explain his Darlanesque "expediency" dealings. The President has said, in effect: Maybe we shouldn't deal with this fellow...
...planned to see "The Voice of the Turtle," but couldn't get tickets for it, so he got on the aisle for "Carmen Jones" and two for "Turtle" the following Saturday. He called his girl to explain, only to find that she already had two for "Turtle." So Ed hastily gets rid of his tabs for both shows. Comes Saturday night. The girl is late. Finally in the middle of Act I they are practically is their seats when a frantic usher swoops down on them. "Sorry," says he, "but your tickets are the matinee...