Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emory R. Buckner, U. S. District Attorney in New York, immediately demanded that Senator Heflin explain his murder charge, and began an investigation...
...author of a book* which raised a controversy. In his speech last week before the Southern Society in Manhattan, he reiterated his side of that controversy. It is now time, he said, to cease talking about Southern chivalry, hospitality, traditions. . . . The South has used the Civil War to explain too many things...
...magnificent. Author Kyne clearly states that this book's supply of moonshine, necessary for comic relief and to resuscitate the nobler characters after arduous adventures in the forest primeval, was laid down before Prohibition. Proud, independent and flirtatious though she is, Heroine Monica Dale, wilderness virgin, is made to explain in pretty confusion that the hero, after helping her to her lonely mountain-top cabin in a deluge, must go out and sleep in the barn. Otherwise she would be?er ?compromised...
Here comes a pause in the story, which seems difficult to explain. For it has since become known that the Lampoon dined on some sort of combination between roast pig and truffled turkey. The original menagerie, however, were obviously alive this morning; especially to the ears of any who may be unfortunate enough to reside in that section of the Gold Coast Bob Lampoon, when interviewed at a late hour last night, declared that a bird in the hand was not always worth two in the bush. There might be some clue there...
...from the feminine: it exacts of an actress a talent at least equal to Maude Adams'. The lines have either suffered in translation or the good people of London and Paris, in their enthusiasm for glorifying Mozart, read a great deal into them. One or the other may explain why the play succeeded on the Continent while failing to stir the North American emotions. The music by Reynaldo Hahn is undistinguished...