Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind, Lindbergh is as genuinely of the former type as Nemo is of the opposite. How come, I can't explain, but there you are. To make me believe that Lindbergh was guilty of trickery or of collusion with trickery, would require as much evidence as to make me believe that Nemo was guilty of decency. The one stands innocent, by virtue of his record, until proved guilty; the other by virtue of his record, stands guilty until proved--awful thought--innocent. Frederick Orin Bartlett
...idiosyncrasies of the censor have always been the subject for much speculation humorous and otherwise. But Mr. Wilton A. Barrett, executive secretary of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, has undertaken to explain the phenomenon on a purely empirical basis, and, since this is a professional matter for him, he carefully eschews facetiousness. Much investigation has convinced him that motion-picture, censorship is due primarily to "the bewilderment of any people confronted with a new mode of expression"; this simple analysis, however, is merely a starting point for the learned Mr. Wilton. a combination of erudition and suspicion...
Unfortunately, Mr. Wilton's revelations do not explain very much about the rather mysterious manner in which the mind of Boston's newest censor works, for he has announced that heading his list of tabooed plays are "The Vinegar Tree," "Sailor beware," "Strange Interlude," and "The Shanghai Gesture." Mr. Parker of the Transcript has his own explanation for the inclusion of the last two plays in the list; he is of the opinion that the censor is haunted, that theatrical spooks are making a hell of his life and that loudly banning plays which almost everyone has forgotten about...
Next day urbane Lucius Boomer, president of the Waldorf, bought space in Manhattan papers to explain what had happened. Five hundred cooks, waiters and bus boys had, by order of the Amalga mated Food Workers union, "folded arms." According to Mr. Boomer, at 5 p. m. a delegation of A. F. W. representatives, Left Wingers not connected with the A. F. of L., had waited on him to protest the pending dismissal of one of their number for incompetence. Mr. Boomer, who got his start in the hotel business rolling barrels around the basement of a Manhattan Beach hostelry...
...admirals aboard the Kent with royal honors. He obviously wanted to chat about what would happen should Japan try to seize the predominantly Dutch Island of Borneo which also contains the territories of British North Borneo and Sarawak. To Japanese the status of Sarawak might be hard to explain. They might consider it fair game since Sarawak is officially "an independent State," might not attach sufficient importance to the fact that Sarawak is also officially "under the protection of Great Britain." This tie is not weakened by the fact that Rajah Brooke's wife is a daughter...