Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That's hoisting a man on his own wisecrack, and properly. But I would like to straighten the quote and explain the origin. When the late, and I believe great newspaperman, Arthur Brisbane, took over the Mirror to haul it out of the red ... I was his pupil and aide. He once wrote me something he said someone had told him. That's as far as I can trace the genealogy of the quote; but it still makes pretty good advice for a young newspaperman or a young politician...
...Voice of the Turtle. Secretary of State Byrnes, who was presumed to be speaking for Mr. Truman, tried to explain. In a speech before the New York Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Mr. Byrnes indicated the course he will steer...
...Always Chasing Rainbows, and Dig You Later ("A Hubba, Hubba, Hubba") which has sold over a million records, are on the current jukebox best-selling lists. Como sings them straighter than slow-drag Sinatra, but with somewhat less ease than The Groaner, Crosby. Says Como: "I can't explain the different techniques in Crosby, Sinatra and me, unless it's that one's bald and one has curly hair and I wear my hair short...
...Violets was modest, blunt, hokum-hating Coach Howard ("Jake") Cann. Scornful of modern mastermind "systems," for 22 years he has coached the same kind of ball he played a quarter-century ago, when he was one of basketball's greats. He seldom diagrams a play. Once, pressed to explain his "N.Y.U. system," he deadpanned: "Well, we throw the ball around a lot and do our best to put it in the basket." His real formula: hold the score down, wear 'em out, then pour...
...astute, cynical worldling whose decree is merely a sop to the crowd and whose desire is to save his niece's life; and he is played with chilling elegance by Sir Cedric Hardwicke. If Antigone has ethics on her side, Creon has logic on his-which may explain why the Nazis raised no squawk...