Word: explainer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week was produced by the Army's spokesman, Major Kunio Akiyama. Said he: "Japan has the heart of a dove of peace, but a snake-the United States and Great Britain-has placed its egg in the dove's nest." The egg, Major Akiyama went on to explain, was "the fortification of Singapore, the arrival of Australian troops in Malaya and the impending fortification of Guam and Samoa...
...Japanese Diet Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka made a highly significant remark. In the event of a break between Japan and the U. S., said he, Russia would be taken care of by "prompt and effective steps." Talky Yosuke Matsuoka went on to explain that Japan's opposition to the extension of Communism in China had been an obstacle to a non-aggression pact with Russia, left his listeners to infer that if the U. S. got tough, Japan would give in on this point. In Moscow Japan's new Ambassador...
...policy of complete isolation, and that those who urge aid to Britain, short of war or all out, are therefore "warmongers and fanatic speech makers." He does not take the trouble to show why his attitude is the only "humane and logical viewpoint"; he either cannot or will not explain his reasons. Secondly, he assumes that the fact that so many leading men and newspapers have changed their minds about the meaning of this war is indicative of the baleful results of a "warmongering diet". Mr. Young seems to believe that a man can never change his opinions except...
...Robert Montgomery) and Mrs. (Carole Lombard) Smith comes an embarrassed little man from the town where they thought they were married, to explain that they are not married at all, because of a legal technicality. To tease his wife, Mr. Smith puts off asking her to remarry him until she gets thoroughly fed up, tosses him out, refuses to marry him at all. Amusing to this point, Mr. and Mrs. Smith for the ensuing reels becomes a sly, exasperating chase, in which the frantic husband tries to recapture his wife, eventually (with the help of a pair of skis) succeeds...
...full periods the Hoddermen had the situation well in hand, battling the favored Bengals all over their own rink and running up a 4 to 2 lead. A disastrous third period tripping penalty and a flukey Tiger shot explain why Princeton is still on top of the roost with the Crimson occupying the opposite extremity...