Word: explainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obvious alibi is given to the police--they were rehearsing and "she didn't know it was loaded." A garrulous doorman (who once procured a chiropractor when an obstetrician was needed) arouses the suspicions of the police when he reveals many of the lies Elton has told to explain his presence and the presence of the murdered man in Miss Hale's apartment. Further complications arise when Wallace Crane arrives home to find that the victim is Malcolm Taylor, the one man who could save the Hamilton National Bank from failure. Meanwhile, Mrs. Crane's guilt is discovered...
This concept of peace & order in "The Way of the Perfect Emperor" and in "The Way of the Warrior," Lieut.-General Araki sometimes abbreviates by the term "Japanism," urges Japan's representatives abroad to explain and spread its gospel. Best explanation so far is that of Japanese Delegate to the League of Nations Yosuke Matsuoka, who represents Japan in Geneva this week and recently declared: "Japan can offer spirituality to America and to the entire Western world. . . . Japanism is a world communism of moral responsibility, ideals, obligations and honor, unlimited by time, unbounded by distance or area and irrespective...
...Roosevelt hastened to explain obliquely that the proposal for increasing the normal tax originated not with him but with his Congressional visitors. Nevertheless he was ready to stand by the conference plan...
...home? We could not! This rapidly increasing demand for hospitalization of delivery cases, which is found all over the world, does not come alone from the medical profession but is a demand of the public itself. The reasons seem to be multiple. Poor economic conditions with insufficient housing explain the conditions in Germany, because there the parturient woman may have her baby in a good public hospital without any charge. ... In America it seems that the comforts of the hospital compete with the disadvantages of apartments and hotels. . . . Furthermore, here also, with living conditions getting worse, many women are forced...
...skin of his teeth, to avoid dropping several tons of cement on his underlings. Men and Jobs is not. essentially, entertainment, but it is a striking and intelligent advertisement for the Five-Year Plan. Good shot: the Russian foreman making a speech in which he tries to explain how, after all, he and his workmen have succeeded in beating their competitor-because of their "enthusiasm...