Word: expounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Geneva, Wis. cottage, went away before he returned late from a political meeting. Said Progressive La Follette to newshawks: "I want you fellows to know that the mere fact that there are a couple of fellows hanging around with guns is not going to prevent me from continuing to expound my economic and political theories...
...outgoing Assistant Secretary of State its editor. Other sponsors of the magazine were Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, NRA Consumer Board chief, her brother William Averell Harriman, Union Pacific board chairman, and Virgil V. McNitt of McNaught Syndicate who was to be executive editor. The weekly will support and expound the New Deal's politics and economics "in plain square-toed English,'"' according to Publisher Astor who said he and Dr. Moley had been concocting the magazine for months. Each week since June Dr. Moley has been writing a rather stuffy syndicate article called "The State...
Tonight's lecture will be given at 7.30 o'clock and repeated at 9.30 o'clock by Dr. D. H. Menzel, noted authority on the atmosphere of the sun. Taking as his topic "The Puzzle of the Planets," he will expound, among other things, the secret of the canals on Mars and the possibility of life there, the frozen clouds of Jupiter, and the rings of Saturn. He will also discuss the discovery of Pluto, and the speculations it has incited as to the number of planets and the boundary of the sun's domain...
...with a religion of his own. Shelley's didactiveness compares unfavorably with Dante's for that reason. Dante assumes that we accept the scheme of the Catholic Church; Shelley tries to convince us of the scheme itself. The poet cannot afford to teach; he is quite at liberty to expound ideas, so long as they aren't his own ideas, for then there is a chance that he will make poetry...
...Publicly to against expound himself and last week denounce the "plot"against himself last week Josef Stalin chose his Right-Hand-Man-Of-The-Moment, Comrade Lazar Kaganovitch. Ingenious, this henchman found the perfect metaphor with which to explain away major breaks in the Five-Year Plan and heap all praise upon Dictator Stalin. Keynoted Comrade Kaganovitch: ". . . Why wail over broken eggs when we are trying to make an omelette...