Word: explainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unable to explain the presence of the gun in his hand, yet feeling that something ought to be done about it, he began loading the chambers with a few odd cartridges he oddly discovered in his vest pocket. It was at this point that he felt a hand on his shoulder and a policeman's breath on the back of his neck...
...last week Washington went to the Stock Exchange. On a self-financed week-end junket "to inspect the different things in New York we Legislators are legislating about," 100 Congressmen & wives trooped into the visitors' gallery, eyed the brokers' antics with astonishment. President Richard Whitney tried to explain what was going on but the junketing Congressmen soon left to see 90 tons of gold in the Federal Reserve vaults, to visit Ellis Island on fireboats...
...matter of conforming to your unselfish wish is inspired by my personal appreciation of your cooperation and devoted editorial assistance. . . . Your guidance and assistance have been an inspiration. . . . With best wishes. . . . Frank A. Tichenor." Quick to speculate on more fundamental reasons than his "business interests'' to explain the Smith retirement, newspapers found two likely ones. Of late. Editor Smith, always proud of his Democratic regularity, has been growing more friendly toward the Roosevelt Administration. He sympathized with the President in the uproar over airmail contracts. Publisher Tichenor. in addition to New Outlook, owns Spur, Sportsman Pilot. Port...
...psychologist looks askance at the CRIMSON candidate. For how can one explain the inconsistencies in the man's character? Parents shudder at the proposition and advise their children to shun such torture. Roommates make up their minds that a black sheep has deserted the fold. And through it all the candidate alone remains serene. For him it is not torture, the others just do not understand. He delights in the scoops, he gloats over his interviews with celebrities and thrills to the click-clack of many typewriters at work...
...without appearing to have stepped into pro-Victorian England out of a Ziegfeld chorus. C. Aubrey Smith is excellent as Wellington. As old Mrs. Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who gets the wittiest lines Nunnally Johnson was able to pack into his script, Helen Westley is superb. Called upon to explain why she has lived so long, she answers, with a muddled sense of finance, by saying: "Why should God take me at 88 when He can get me at 100?" George Arliss has been playing another Jew. Disraeli, for so long and under so many names, that he cannot step completely...