Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese sportsmen politely said that it must be because Meiji Stadium is so very, very large and their fielders had stood so very, very far back to catch all the Bambino's terrific deliveries. Next day Mr. Ruth again hit only a single. This was harder to explain, for Lou Gehrig and Jimmy Foxx both hit homers, and Earl Averill hit two, polishing off the game 5-to-11. With exquisite sportsmanship, Japanese baseball scribes then wrote that of course all the handshaking Japanese had inflicted on Mr. Ruth must have tired his arm. Said Manager Connie Mack, with feeling...
...notice. Miserably she fretted. "These laws! What is even a love expert like me going to do against such man-made barriers? Love is beautiful. Love is spontaneous. Why must man thwart it?" Not long to be thwarted was Mrs. Stull herself, who took advantage of the hitch to explain her mission: "I am the love fixer. I make men and women happy. My theory is that every Jill has her Jack." By way of proving her theory she has brought to gether 600 grateful couples. Twenty-seven babies bear all or part of the name Nelle Brooke Stull...
...cannot see why Prof. Magoun needs to be called severely to task by Professor Wiener for recounting the philosophy of the Nazis. I was thankful to see it succinctly put, and did not leap to the immediate conclusion that Prof. Magoun was a rabble-rouser. If I explain to the press why Eskimos eat candles, or state what particular gastronomic pleasure cannibals derive from missionaries, is it to be assumed that I approve of such edibles or such ethics, or that I am a cannibal...
Last week another John Gay, a Wisconsin politician, made a slurring speech at Waukesha. At a Republican rally where 2,300 citizens were assembled, John Brigg Gay, tall, slender, military, a champion marksman, popular with his fellow War veterans, got up to explain why he should be elected to Congress- a job for which he was defeated two years ago. G. O. Partisan Gay spoke for a full hour, while John Chapple. Republican nominee for Senator (see above), waited his turn and the crowd grew restive. The interminable flow of oratory went on until suddenly Nominee Gay had everyone...
Just how Herr Thyssen could retain his purchased grip, once the Nazis had all Germany at their mercy, few gropers have tried to explain. Great was their perturbation last week as Tycoon Thyssen popped up at Buenos Aires, 5,900 miles from Berlin...