Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Thornton Hardie, El Paso lawyer, got up to explain to the Supreme Court why Farmer Moor had not paid his tax: He could not; he was already in debt; if he had plunked down $45,000 to pay the tax he would have had to go out of business long before the constitutionality of the law was settled. "If a man has a pig by the hind leg," said Texan Hardie, "he can't afford to let go when somebody says to him, 'Drop that pig and catch another...
...acters (Waiting for Lefty, Till the Day I Die) and one full-length play (Awake and Sing!) behind him within a twelvemonth, with his ears ringing with more critical praise than many an older playwright has achieved in a full career, 29-year-old Clifford Odets undertook to explain to metropolitan critics just what his latest play was about. On the eve of Paradise Last's premiere he announced that the hero of his play was "the entire American middle-class of liberal tendency...
...Opened with a Labor question on, whether His Majesty's Government intend to explain to the Government of the United States that the United Kingdom is about to re-arm with an expenditure of millions due but unpaid to the U. S. Treasury...
...Wine (words & music by Frank Mandel, Oscar Hammerstein II & Sigmund Romberg; Laurence Schwab, producer). As Playwrights Bella & Samuel Spewack explain in their current uproarious comedy about Hollywood, most popular drama is derived from the tried & true formula: Boy Meets Girl-Boy Loses Girl-Boy Gets Girl. No one knows better than Messrs. Mandel, Hammerstein and Romberg how exasperating it is to try to find a fresh method of stating this old theme. Last time out together (East Wind, 1931), they solved the problem by having their boy meet their girl in French Indo-China. This year their situation, for musicomedy...
Once again the two stroll in the church yard and the priest triceps to explain that indeed they are there; only one must have "eyes of the spirit" to see them. They have been there for generations. These people believe and they need no more evidence. But the reporter only said: "There is nothing there," and went about his business...