Word: explains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...calculating career of mendacity which would belittle even Jesse James, who was romantic enough to ride a horse." Mr. Hogg also imputed "stalwart avarice" and "piratical trading" to Mr. Jones, but few took note. They just admired Mr. Jones and decided he was a real Democrat when, to explain Mrs. Jones's not being at the station to meet Mrs. Wilson he said: "She's home, frying the chicken...
...that the county solicitor could complain of, however, was the gentleman's reputation. He, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, is notorious as, but not legally recorded as, the fattest spider in the web of Chicago's criminal underworld. All that the Miami officials could do was explain to Mr. Capone that people did not like his looks and advise him to leave town. Mr. Capone, who has been ordered and ushered out of Los Angeles, Kansas City and many another city besides his own Chicago,* told the Miamians that he had done no wrong and would leave Miami...
...sacrificed love and happiness for his "pard," and disappeared. The present story follows him to the wicked mining town where he had made his name notorious for gambling and drinking. To the surprise of gamblers and dancing girls, Jim now avoided trouble and laughed off insults. He did not explain that Hettie Ide, spirited California beauty, had since come into his life...
...advisers guide freshmen at the outset of their undergraduate careers. I should say, rather, fall to guide. There seems to be an idea that the freshman year, with its full quota of prescribed courses, is rather a waste anyway and is not deserving of serious attention. The advisers, consequently, explain as briefly as possible the methods of distribution and concentration, fill up the freshman's cards with all the elementary courses it will hold, and dismiss the young man with the conviction of a job well done. I recall that the gentleman to whom I was intrusted ushered me into...
...subject of the Constitutional Amendments which he has made the basis of his article. I positively declined to talk to him for publication referring him to carefully prepared articles by me which completely reflected my views. Upon his insistence and purely for his own information, I consented to explain exactly why, in my opinion, there was no analogy between alleged violations of the suffrage amendments in the South and the actual violation of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Prohibition Act in all parts of the country. That was all; and nothing that I either thought or said could afford justification...