Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...creature indeed, but few, if any, of his hearers knew what snollygoster meant. According to one austere authority, the word is "a lower grade of colloquialism." Of obscure origin, it was given classic definition in the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, which in 1895 reported. "A Georgia editor kindly explains that 'a snollygoster is a fellow who wants office regardless of party, platform or principles and who, whenever he wins, gets there by the sheer force of monumental talknothical assumnacy.' " How serious a charge "talknothical assumnacy" was, no one seemed equipped to explain...
...University Hospital, after nearly two weeks of suffering under an oxygen tent. With her was her dancer son, Paul Jr. Two years before, during his unsuccessful libel suit against Greenwich housewife Hester McCullough, who had labeled him pro-Communist (TIME, June 5, 1950), Paul had attempted to explain his mother -and in so doing had characterized quite a lot of U.S. intellectuals and their hangers-on. Said he: "She has made statements that are not so. They are not lies . . . They are things that she sees and exaggerates to fit what her heart very much wants...
...Pastor Spanuth has ways to explain away such minor difficulties. Plato, he says, was not infallible. After all, he got his information in a very indirect manner through Egyptian priests, never noted for scientific precision...
MANY people have tried to explain the extraordinary success of Louella Parsons. The story has gone the rounds for years that, as she puts it in her autobiography, she was "supposed to know 'something' "-presumably about her boss, William Randolph Hearst, whom she steadfastly revered through the 29 years she worked for him. Careful research has still to uncover any evidence to support this legend...
These nightly forfeits paid by New York theatergoers may partly explain why Broadway has only ten shows currently playing (see below), while London has 37. One expert who sees the point is Howard S. Cullman, inveterate first-nighter, chairman of the New York Port Authority, and one of Broadway's archangels. Last week Playgoer Cullman suggested that New York's City Council change some of its antiquated laws...