Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yolaine Randall, 26, a dark and vacantly beautiful model, love was a good address. In a Manhattan courtroom last week Yolaine's husband. Sol Randall, 36, a $60-a-week restaurant cashier, tried to explain Yolaine's attitude toward their $186-a-month suite at the Century. "To her, the apartment on Central Park West was society stuff, the 400," said Sol. "I tried to move out-it was too expensive for me. She said she wouldn't live out of the Century. She said, 'When I tell people I live at the Century that means...
...death will send a twinge of nostalgia to many a middle-aged American-a feeling which will be difficult to explain to his son or daughter. A generation ago, Mencken's passing would have caused wholesale sorrow in certain speakeasies and newspaper city rooms. College students would have cut classes for a day to mourn the loss of the stormiest figure on the U.S. conversational scene. And in many a parish house and political forum, his death would have been considered...
Just Another Composer. Marcia Davenport jots down a few figures that are far more expressive than words to explain Mozart's desperate struggle. "About $200 was all he ever received for Figaro, about $225 for Don Giovanni . . . and about $112 for the Requiem...
...much anti-intellectual as the intellectual is anti-U.S. But Father Bruckberger is not one to be satisfied with mere accusation. His chief point is a challenge as the world needs America's example to follow, so America needs its intellectuals to explain what America is all about...
...mention the Kindness of the French Ladies to me. I must explain that matter. This is the civilest Nation upon Earth ... If 'tis understood that you like Mutton, dine where you will you find Mutton. Somebody, it seems, gave it out that I lov'd Ladies; and then everybody presented me their Ladies (or the Ladies presented themselves) to be embrac'd, that is to have their Necks kiss'd. For as to kissing of Lips or Cheeks, it is not the Mode here: the first is reckon'd rude, and the other...