Word: explainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right there by all those who heard two other Journalism Week orators. Bronzed, bushy-haired Publisher Bernarr Macfadden of Liberty, True Story, True Romances and Physical Culture took the platform to explain the secret of his success in the publishing business, part of which he credited to curiosity...
...Thomas Cantrell Dugdale's portrait of Actress Vivien Leigh in bed, the Royal Academy's pressagent thought it necessary to explain that the artist, calling to arrange sittings, had found Miss Leigh ill in bed, decided to do her that way, in a sheer blue nightgown. Only ''challenge to orthodoxy'' in the show was a double portrait of another actress lying on a couch in her unmarried personality, leaning over the couch in her married personality...
...proposed resolution of Representative Edith Nourse Rogers at Washington calling upon Secretary Hull to explain why adequate protection was not provided the American legation in Addis Ababa during the crisis is only one more example of the American policy of advocating insurance in a loud voice, refusing to take the responsibility of paying the premium, and then raising a loud howl when the building is half burned. It not only flagrantly disregards the true facts of the case, but is the usual type of crown to cap the parlor patriotism on the front pages of the last few days...
French cafe prophets were able to explain all this to their own satisfaction in terms of the Right parties and the tycoons who control them. Germany's Army is too strong for what the French call a "preventive war" to be effective. Therefore France must temporize with Germany until her Army and alliances are built...
...biologist in the making was doing penance one Saturday morning for his sins of omission. He was laboriously copying a vast chart, spread over two or three large tables, that was designed to explain to Anti-Clerics the Evolution of animal life, from the little Protozoa to the lower Chordates (a large group ranging all the way from she-flirts to sea-squirts). All of a sudden, into the privacy of the lonely laboratory came a troupe of smiling adults, all intent on edification. Solemnly and yet enthusiastically they took their places at the shining black tables. Then...