Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Accolade. A more or less astonished Senate committee listened to George explain his qualifications for the job. "I very badly want to be confirmed by you gentlemen," said George soberly. Then he cut loose with his best comedy routine. The Senators almost died laughing. Would George give up his 22 directorships? "I'd hate to cut out all," grinned George, "because what if the Democrats lost in '48?" In a burst of jolly good fellowship they confirmed George for the job. Senator Barkley wrung his hand...
Said Dean Frederick Nolde of Philadelphia's Mount Airy Lutheran Theological Seminary, to explain the vital need for such unprecedented cooperation: "Christians are a minority in the world. If they do not become organized, their voices will not be heard in the councils of the world and they will have no effect...
...weary outsider, these sentimental lines would scarcely seem to fit the barren, rocky acres of Star Island, one of the nine Isles of Shoals off New Hampshire's brief coast. But to the religiously liberal Unitarian Fellowship, these and the other two stanzas of the song Gosport Harbor, explain the intangible atmosphere of peace that makes Star Island a favorite summer retreat. For half a century Unitarians have gone from some 24 states "to worship God here in the midst of His sea to take counsel together of the deep thing that abide, to share the friendship...
...spurious theory, still popular unfortunately, tries to explain that hideous penchant of ours for collecting things as nothing but a legitimate inheritance from some of our more squirrel-like ancestors. The bare truth of the matter is that collecting is a form of escapism. It affords the harried citizens of the modern rational world an opportunity to give way occasionally to outbursts of insanity without incurring any considerable danger of losing face...
British moviemakers, puzzled by U.S. cinemorality, want a serious answer to this question. For the past fortnight, the man who knows all anyone needs to know about U.S. censorship has been in London trying to explain it in simple English. It is a tough job-even for the Johnston Office's jowly, jolly Joe Breen. No. 1 U.S. "interpreter" of the Hollywood morality Code...