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Word: explains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nowadays the San Carlo master rarely travels with the performers, prefers to drop in on them when least expected. On one such occasion he arrived in New Orleans during a matinee, met the company harpist ambling along the streets. The player tried to explain that the opera was Rigoletto, that the score calls for no harp. But Gallo was not to be placated. He saw to it that for the Rigolettos thereafter the harpist went into the pit, played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tourists | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

King to King. With most Italians feeling last week that evidently Britons do not understand how little Italy wants in Africa, their Little King sat down in his Quirinal Palace and wrote to King George, asking him to explain things in London? or so the British Reuters Agency reported. George V, having finished up his Scottish grouse shooting, announced that he would return to Buckingham Palace this week several days ahead of schedule. All his life a practical Navy man, His Majesty was far more alive than politicians like Squire Baldwin to the queer fact that big guns have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Bullying & Bluffing | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

First off, the physical therapists felt obliged to explain their specialty to a world that was ready to call them quacks. London's Dr. Franz Nagelschmidt, who fostered physical therapy in 1912 with his Textbook of Diathermy and who recently discovered a therapeutic electric current which reduces fatty tissue without dieting or drugging, volunteered to explain one aspect. Said he last week in Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physical Therapy | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

...suspense is contributed by the jewel thieves' attempts to retrieve their swag. Its charm resides in the fact that George Brent can wrinkle his nose whereas Kay Francis cannot pronounce "r." Good shot: a bedazzled police chief (Spencer Charters) trying to make the company at the lodge explain what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 23, 1935 | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

...John was too ill with tuberculosis to work in the mine he loved. When Ellen saw the huge crowds that tramped miles to his funeral, she suddenly realized that her plain, impractical husband had been a great man, reflected with anguish, pride and bewilderment that husbands ought to explain things to their wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down in a Coal Mine | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

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