Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chairman Cartwright answered. It was a customer making an inquiry. The board chairman was just framing an answer when the switchboard operator cut him off the line. Cartwright hung up and the telephone rang again. It was another customer. The switchboard operator's piping voice cut in to explain: "I can't get any answer from the sales department, Mr. Cartwright." Chairman Cartwright's overloaded temper burst forth to Managing Director Pethybridge, who started to agree: "Of course people must go out for cups of tea in the middle of the morning and the middle...
...Rome, Cinemactress Anna (Open City) Magnani went to court to explain why she had not paid the Italian custom duties on a 1948 Buick which she has been driving for three years. She bought the car, Anna said, thinking everything was in legal order, but "I was swindled...
...Very well," said Johnston. "Undefeated, you know." He went on to explain that the Bears, as the Washington team is called, whomped Missouri Mines, 27-6, in their opener and edged Wayne University of Detroit last week, 13-12. Someone else chipped in with the information that junior varsity coach Henry Lamar, who scouted Washington in both these games, had described them as "rough...
...Stevenson doesn't have the common touch, how do you explain his terrific victory in the Illinois gubernatorial election of 1943?" Parsons asked. "You can be sure that he wouldn't have been elected if the party leaders weren't convinced he was a good vote-getter," he added...
Full Explanation. In Cleveland, Mrs. Norma Peden told a divorce court that when she asked her husband to explain a package of love letters from a nightclub entertainer, he laughed, said: "This is a modernistic world," and broke a mirror over her head...