Word: explains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Please Explain...
Here Sir Harry went back to his picture and after daubing a few more greases upon the glass, turned to explain his work. "I shall go on till I die. It is my work, and I am a worker. I want to get the children singing, to know my songs, and to know me, as I have their parents and their grandparents in all parts of the world. And if, in the course of this work. I happen to help some poor fellow over the top, that is my reward...
Last week, Mr. Hays anticipated his cross-examiners with a statement which raised the "maximum" of Sinclair's contributions to $260,000 and the actual net of his gifts to $160,000. Mr. Hays tried hard to explain what looked like, yet may not have been, flat perjury. The explanation was this...
...last by a page who discreetly retired, he approached the desk of Privy Councilor Bach, placed the tin box upon it, and spoke crisply: "I have here 15 pounds of high explosives. Unless you are willing to give me 112,000 marks, in cash, for reasons which I shall explain, this building will be blown off the earth. I have my hand on the fuse and I shall set off the bomb the moment my request is refused...
...statement by Chancellor of Austria Monsignor Ignaz Seipel. He rose in the Austrian Parliament and declared "The treatment of the Lower Tyroleans is in our opinion incompatible with minority rights, and is a hindrance to further amicable relations between Austria and Italy, which are very desirable." To explain and excuse the Austrian Parliament's outspoken criticism of Italian Administration of the Lower Tyrol, Chancellor Seipel shrewdly added "the Italian Government must realize that there is quite a difference between interference in another nation's domestic affairs and expressing disapproval of those affairs...