Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing more. Four times her minister in Bucharest called at the Foreign Office to protest. First against the "atti tude, of the Rumanian press," then the "campaign labeling all Rumanian criminals as Communists," then the "general unfriendly Rumanian attitude." On his fourth visit he demanded that impotent Rumania explain the presence of the in creasing Nazi hordes and give an immediate answer to his other protests. Reports that 30 crack Soviet divisions had ar rived in Bessarabia to counter Hitler's Army, and that the region of Odessa was under martial law, sent Rumanians from the Moldavian borderland fleeing...
...little weary. Confirmed Wodehousians hoot, holler, writhe, snort, bellow, nicker, and in culminating transports, belch. Asked why, they may look blank, indignant. Anton Chekhov once said that the best description of the sea he had ever read was written by a Russian schoolboy: "The sea is vast." Wodehousians explain the master's illimitable spell just as simply: He is funny...
...fact that responsible officers of the U. S. Army had been dozing at their posts, or-what was worse -fumbling with deadly effect. The official who had most to say about this state of affairs was Henry L. Stimson, Mr. Roosevelt's Republican Secretary of War. Undertaking to explain why the draft and National Guard mobilization had fallen behind schedule (TiME, Nov. 25), he was as blackly frank as William S. Knudsen was on industrial defense. With other dark bits in the news. Mr. Stimson's statement made a sorry record, sinisterly remindful of the British in Norway...
...want to know how to explain that perfumed letter to your mother-in-law, you can learn from "Too Much Johnson." It's not Saroyan but it's got more laughs than folks like Mrs. George S. Kaufmann can whip into a play, and that...
Richard C. Harlow, Harvard football coach, will show the movies of the recent Harvard-Yale game at 11:00 o'clock in the Institute of Geographical Exploration. He will explain the team play while the movies are being shown...