Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. The tired subeditor of the London Liberal, "that well known organ of the more depressing aspects of advanced thought," sneaks away for a lonely vacation from journalism and a noisy family. He and his flivver, by an accident only Einstein could fitly explain, crash right through the fourth dimension and into Utopia?where he finds a handful of other Earthlings, as bewildered as he at finding themselves translated to a new and perfect universe. The others include those whom Mr. Wells seems to regard as typical public nuisances of a modern civilization?a titled lady, pleasant, but futile...
...During the Past Week the Press Gave Extensive Publicity to the Followlng Men and Women. Let Each Explain to You Why His Name Appeared in the Headlines...
President Eliot then recounted experiences in selecting the faculty, in securing a charter from the state legislature, and in getting the school started in its cramped quarters in the old Commercial Building on Summer Street. From this story of Technology's early days, he went on to explain, certain "inferences should be drawn in regard to American education. The example of this institution", he continued, "is a striking one. The idea of such a school originated in the mind of one man, and since that time the governing body of Technology has been composed of private citizens. This example teaches...
...Exciters. One grows rather discouraged when the opening titles explain that the mortals of the title roles are society people who exist on thrills?" super jazzites." By now jazzites, like Perizzites and Hittites, are badly out of date. One grows positively gloomy when the scene opens in Miami with speedboats upon the waters and the scenery littered up with society people in stenographers' clothing. Then a flying boat crashes and things begin to improve. Soon the heroine (Bebe Daniels) on the trail of a thrill stumbles into a den of crooks. The audience has caught the idea by this time...
...some reason Mr. Munsey did not think it necessary to explain the consolidation so much to the readers of The Sun who were presumably as much concerned. On Saturday, June 2, The Globe published an editorial headed "Finis." The following Monday, the consolidated paper came out. It bore the names and trade marks of both papers, but it appeared in the type of The Sun and with The Sun's " make-up." Articles began two columns wide on the front page, and after a few lines dwindled away to one column width-as they did in The Sun. Evidence...