Word: explainers
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...panes, the brake rods, hoping to receive virtue through their bumps. The good little man was the Panchen Lama who has sometimes been called the Buddhist Pope.* His contract was with the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek to become a public relations counselor to fight Soviet propaganda, explain the Nationalist Government to the Manchurian masses. In return for this the Panchen Lama receives a new title: "Great Wise Priest Who Guards the Nation and Spreads Culture." and $480,000 ($2,160,000 Mex.) a year. $120,000 for himself and entourage, and $30,000 a month extra...
...London Bishop Cannon tried to explain that the funds passing into his personal account had been checked out again and delivered to his anti-Smith committee. Remarked Senator Nye of the Manly disclosures: "When all the information is put together it will clearly show actual diversion of campaign money to the private accounts of Bishop Cannon...
...Declared caustic Senator Glass as the hearings closed temporarily: "From the nature of the evidence adduced, it is not to be wondered that a physician gave the Bishop a certificate to the effect that it would endanger his life to explain his bank account to the Nye committee...
...culpability which is early and clearly established, but in wondering what penalty will fall upon the murderer. His crime is justified; he has planned it carefully; but the roue's mistress (Kay Francis) suspects Barrymore and finds evidence to justify her suspicions. It is necessary for Barrymore to explain to her with gestures, that he can manufacture a water-tight case against her unless she holds her tongue. Ably constructed, Guilty Hands is made into a murder story in the grand manner, a carnival of bad acts and good intentions, by Barrymore's elaborate characterization...
...During the entire dispute over the Red River free and toll bridges, I did not have a pistol in my hand, in fact 1 am such a poor marksman that I never shoot until the other fellow has shot at me. I have been busy writing letters trying to explain how it could be do'ne. Ranger Bob Goss, a member of my company, can hit a playing card turned edgewise with his pistol turned upside down. He does this about twice out of every five shots...