Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This graceful confession came last week from Publisher George H. Doran of Manhattan. His magazine is the Bookman (monthly). His editor is John Chipman Farrar. The purpose of the confession was to explain the sale of the Bookman to Burton Rascoe and Eeward B. Collins, for an unannounced sum. The new owners will commence with the September issue...
...time it was in an editorial in the New York World, after a report that I had declined to dine with Jack Dempsey on the grounds that appearances might be compromised if we became too friendly. The editorial said: 'Somebody ought to take this Mr. Tunney aside and explain to him just what the heavyweight championship of the world really is. It is not, as he seems to think, an ex-officio position in the Boy Scout movement. . . . It is, in fact, nothing but a title to designate the incumbent Heavy Socker; it calls for nothing whatever; being...
...George Summers, 27, and friends sat playing cards. "Ho ho," smirked Mr. Summers. Mr. Link, having made a misplay, scowled. "Ha ha," cried Mr. Summers. Mr. Link had made another stupid error. "Heh heh," cackled Mr. Summers after another of Mr. Link's blunders,* and undertook to explain the game as to a novice. Mr. Link grew indignant. So did Mr. Summers, petulant tutor. Mr. Link retorted sharply. Mr. Summers arose and shook Mr. Link by the neck in mock fury. Mr. Link collapsed, died two hours later of a ruptured blood vessel. Mr. Summers, pleading "a playful scuffle...
...Eureka Co. has not yet had opportunity to present in court the excellencies of their cleaner, nor the Exposition managers to explain the confusion in making the awards...
...architects have added to their committee a representative of sculpture, arts-in-trade, of mural painting, and Architect Ferruccio Vitale of Manhattan, a trustee of the American Academy in Rome. At the Institute's 60th Convention, next month, Chairman C. Grant La-Farge of the new committee will explain what the Institute means by "collaboration" among U. S. architects, mural painters, landscapists, sculptors. The Institute's representatives on the new committee. include celebrated teachers aswell as practitioners-bristling little Paul P. Cret, whom students at the University of Pennsylvania regard as another Leonardo; able Everett V. Meeks, dean...