Word: explainers
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...vain the new Chancellor addressed an open letter to a high German Catholic prelate, attempted to explain that he had "accepted the President's call not as a party man but as a German." Sternly an official Catholic Centrist manifesto denounced "the frivolous intrigues of constitutionally irresponsible individuals." At Cologne the Party's newsorgan called the new Cabinet "a bad joke," added: "Of all the surprises which domestic politics have recently produced this is the greatest and most painful...
...murder appears to have been committed and a dim-witted lady named Sybil (Zasu Pitts) discovers an absent-minded individual dressed in a raincoat who seems to know something about it. Finally, Daniels' daughter and her husband discover the timid embalmer's assistant. He helps to explain matters to the addle-pated police...
...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...