Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pressed to explain why New York Telephone Co. does not employ an "equitable number" of Jews, one official replied that Jewish girls could not operate equipment "because their arms are too short." A restaurateur alibied that Jewish waitresses do not like to serve nonkosher food...
Witness Hedges gave him a good look at the button. But he did not explain that it is the badge of the 8-Ball Club, organized years ago "by a group of the dog-house boys for their mutual protection against the pitfalls in life." Members include NBC-RCA engineers, salesmen, sales managers-people who consider themselves most frequently behind the 8-ball...
Albert Chaperau explained that he liked to bring in gifts for his friends. Acquaintances of Mr. Chaperau were called upon to explain that they accepted his gifts in good faith. Among the embarrassed donees were Comedians Jack Benny and Jack Pearl; Cinemactor Wallace Ford, Hotelman Ralph Hitz, Twentieth Century-Fox Executive Joseph Moskowitz. Professing great "amusement" over it all last week, Albert Chaperau cracked...
...melodrama with enough 'body' for a masculine audience." Theodore Wood, Jr. 2G, who has been a consistent leading man when parts are drawn from a hat on "production nights" was more explicit. "It's good rugged stuff--all sorts of words are used without a blush." Wood did not explain whether it was the play or the players that did not "blush...
...Brooklyn judge did not understand why this slight gesture was considered important testimony in a divorce case. Court Interpreter Vincent D'Agrossa volunteered to explain. This case involved an Italian couple, and to Italians the bit of old-world folklore had plenty of meaning. The gesture, said Interpreter D'Agrossa, was "what we call cornuto." It was an ancient custom to cut the spurs off castrated cocks and graft them to the birds' heads, where they grew as horns. Since the horned capon was a strutting definition of sexual inadequacy, its horns became a symbol of cuckoldry...