Word: explainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Honor was at a loss to explain Fugitive Sherwood's disappearance. He said he had tried to get him back so he ''wouldn't have to go through these two days." If the $700,000 was inferred to belong partly to him, Mayor Walker said he "hoped [the Inquisitor] proves it is mine. I'd try and collect it" (Laughter). The lock box, he explained, had been shared when Mayor Walker was in the State Senate and practiced law in a firm for which Sherwood was accountant. It had been used by the Mayor...
...February, when Governor Roosevelt ousted Sheriff Thomas M. Farley of New York County for failing to explain satisfactorily the sources of his fat income, the Governor issued a precedent-making announcement: "It is time, I believe, that the standard of the conduct of public officers be put on a plane of personal as well as official honesty and that, therefore, there is a positive duty on the part of the public official to explain matters which arise on an inquiry which involves the expenditure or the depositing of large sums of money. . . . One of their deep obligations is to recognize...
...Philippe Josselin and as Philippe Josselin he sees nothing strange or wrong about loving Jeanne, the pension-keeper's daughter. The French undertow is so strong that Millicent is forgotten until a telegram reminds him of the wedding three weeks off. He goes back to England, tries to explain his reincarnation to Millicent but she will not release him. He escapes to France, marries Jeanne. But his new-found ego absorbs him so completely that not until she is dying in childbirth does he realize that Jeanne was the heart & soul of Philippe Josselin...
...explain this in part Counsel Gray last week called upon the investment trust's president, conservative Walter E. Sachs. But Banker Sachs was not president when the company was mushrooming. President then was dynamic, imperious Waddill Catchings, a rampant bull who was also then the dominant partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. It is said that much of the time Banker Catchings' partners never knew what he was doing. Deals would be completely negotiated before he would ask their perfunctory approval...
...vocabulary . . . the effect of college . . . appears to be almost negligible and in some cases positively injurious. ... To a senior with average score the word benighted means weary, recreant means diverting and spurious means foamy. Possibly the fact that he takes the word assiduous to mean foolish may help explain his case...