Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of Nature that noise and jostling as well as light are sex stimulants. If Professor William Rowan's reasoning can be extended to human conduct it may provide a commentary on jamming in glaring, blaring night clubs, amusement parks, subways and country fairs. It may also explain why the filthy pigeons of Manhattan, London and Paris, and the noisy starlings of Washington are highly prolific...
...which held that this same exemption applied to the President. In Article II, Section I, there is a similar clause which states that the "President shall . . . receive ... a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected." Will you please explain the grounds for your item on the President's income...
...some publicity. The convention told him nothin' stirrin' . . . but the people of the town put on the pressure. ... I told Colonel Green it would 'take 75' to cover expenses for the delegate he replaced. He handed me a check for $7,500. I had to explain I only needed...
Back home after two years, Alfred found himself regarded more as an undesirable alien than a returning hero, tried futilely to explain why he was no Communist, but finally kept his mouth shut after a call from an agent of the Department of Justice. His girl had married a wealthy logging operator's son from Seattle, but now she suggested that if he would get a job in Russia she would go with him. Alfred declined. One Russian exile was enough. Meanwhile, even though the bottom had dropped out of his world, where there was any democracy left, there...
...seated at one table a King, two Counts, a Boston deb, the bar tender from my hotel, one of Madame Blouse's girls, a gigolo and four old women showing the Count how much money they had. Royalty and the old women did the betting: the gigolo tried to explain things for the deb; Madame Blouse's girl kept dropping things; and I giggled my only ten francs in my pocket...