Word: explainable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Distressed by the campaign's character, Candidate Sterling, no public speaker, kept in the background, let others do his stumping. He did try to explain the baths in his home: "It's true I built a house down on the bay. ... I had them build a bath for my children's room and there was one for my wife and me, and one for my wife's sister, and we built two guest rooms. ... I don't think there's anything so awful about having a home with bathrooms. ... I hope every citizen...
Perhaps one of your aviation contributors could explain why it is that these powerful engines sound so weak when the plane takes off the ground...
...sentence alone on the first page- "If you would keep men from becoming as animals, strive ever to see animals as men"-may explain this book, and it may not. It is hard to become excited over rabbits. Poetry, drama, philosophy seldom attaches to them. But for those who like them, here are some, colorfully painted...
...from Syracuse (Paramount). One of the stock laughs in a piece of this kind comes when the hero, trying to explain to his girl that he is not really a famed mining engineer traveling incognito but just a country boy in his first golf trousers, is always interrupted and has to keep his secret. Jack Oakie does not depend on stock laughs. He makes them bearable but is really funny only when he improvises. The picture, most of which takes place on a steamer going to Macedonia, lacks the continuous suggestion of laughter that first-rate comedy possesses...
Health. Revealed last week were these excerpts from a recent colloquy between His Holiness and Justice Victor James Dowling of New York: His Holiness: "How do I look? Do I look well? ... I cannot explain even to myself how it has been possible to spread such bad news about my 'poor health.' You can be sure it was not my fault if that information was so widespread. . . . Thanks be to God, I am feeling most well, and can do everything I set out to do. What more could a man ask? . . . I cannot slow down my audiences. People...