Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writers of German Army communiqués were hard put to explain the situation. Their excuses were lame. "The Soviet Army has not engaged in one single, real large-scale attack during the last eight weeks. Anyhow, fighting in the area which was mentioned by the Soviets has not ceased...
...study under the new psychologists in Vienna, he has had a thorough apprenticeship for his work. He has loved the neurotic, beautiful Cassandra Tower (Betty Field) only to have her murdered by her father (Claude Rains), his revered teacher, who in turn kills himself. Dr. Tower's papers explain why: Cassandra's mother had gone insane; Cassandra herself had shown the first signs of dementia praecox...
...jury summoned George Hill to explain: 1) why he had been so solicitous about the Islands For War Debts Committee's mail; 2) what he knew about George Sylvester Viereck, the Nazi agent (now under indictment) who is accused of having subsidized the committee. Hill said he had not sent for the mail, said he did not know George Sylvester Viereck. The jury promptly indicted George Hill on a charge of perjury...
...gentlemen have demanded that I explain to you the meaning of the blue ensemble and red necktie. Well, perhaps that might be taken as reflecting a view as to the relative importance of networks, or it might simply be out of sheer loyalty and affection for the Navy and for Harvard...
Died. Sir Jeremiah Colman, 82, millionaire mustard maker and famed orchid collector; in Reigate, England. Chairman of the board of J. & J. Colman, Ltd., founded by his grandfather, developed by his father, he liked to explain that his wealth was made "not by the mustard people ate, but by the mustard left on their plates...