Word: explainers
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...tried to remember to be ruthless, disciplined, to fix his eyes on the day the fascists would take power and all decay and misery would be swept out of Sweden. As he steeled himself for that Herculean task, life at Holinge became such torrential confusion his theories could not explain it. His venomous aunt, de Grévy's sister, appeared. She suspected Bengt's mother of looting the estate. Bengt had to raise money at once. But his only wealthy friend was half-Jewish and Bengt, compromising his convictions in his dire need, found himself trapped...
...describes the winters filled with memories of bad colds, of policemen with faces like blue meat, of "overcoatless men;" the brief spring, the hot summers when the poor lay out on fire-escapes "and the child cried thinly and endlessly." But Poet Benét admits he cannot explain the city or its society to future cornerstone riflers, and to serious readers his apostrophe may sound a little hollow...
...right, tight little British ruling class is such a small place that what goes on quickly reaches the ears of everyone who matters without benefit of newspapers. There was no need last week to advertise that No. 18 Cadogan Gardens is for sale. Still less need to explain this little fact's large significance. It meant that esteemed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who in his lovable way makes from time to time such disastrous bumbles, had decided to call back into the cabinet "The Man Who Was Right...
...Fritchey's hunch was correct. "Dacek" was one Louis J. Cadek, a hardboiled, barrel-bellied police captain who had been 30 years on the Cleveland force. Other property and bank accounts under various names were linked to Captain Cadek, who was soon indicted and brought to trial to explain how he came by a fortune...
...philosophy: "On a cushion which accompanies me everywhere is my philosophy: 'Never complain. Never explain.' Nothing ages a woman like worry or bad temper. . . . Make-up is an art that every woman must learn for herself. There is one element which must always go into it. Plenty of time...