Word: explainers
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...Vagabond need not explain how he knows of all the worthwhile things that go on. He is omniscient some have even attributed to him omnipresence. Moreover, from his place in Memorial Hall he surveys all. He feels that he can be justly enraged. The greatest fault of the false accusation is its inaccuracy. The Vagabond has no price of twenty-five dollars, in fact he never has stooped to so low a bribe...
Ever since Rumor spread the word that the morning departure was to be made at the unprecedentedly early hour of 7.45 o'clock, local dopesters have been put to it to explain why the leaders of learning should content themselves with 15 minutes of House breakfast in the could grey dawn to reach the field of a battle scheduled on the Elis' Jayvee diamond, for the tardy hour of 3.30 o'clock. Nor have the few statement vouchsafed by officials gone far to clarify the situation...
...relatively large amount of funds available, together with the present methods of administration, explain the confidence with which if may be said that no student, possessed of normal physique and proved intellectual promise, over need be compelled because of financial causes to withdraw from Harvard College. The physique is necessary to enable him to help himself to a reasonable extent; the intellectual promise must be proved in order to justify financial aid from others...
When the New York Times headlined last week SOCIALISM FAVORED BY RELIGIOUS GROUPS, many a conservative reader might have viewed indignantly the recurring initials Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. and fumed to himself: "Socialism, indeed!" Hastily next day, like a mother seeking to explain away a gaffe her child has uttered, the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A., in the persons of General Secretary Fred W. Ramsey and Board President Mrs. Robert E. Speer (respectively) explained that the report, Toward a New Economic Society, was no work of their organizations...
...never sung in any opera. But she had studied singing for two years, had a smattering of singer's Italian. She telephoned a neighbor, asked her to mind the children-Helen, 9, Charles, 6. She thought it might be wiser not to try to explain to her husband, Nathan Wallack, busy at his radio-supply store. She packed a bag, scuttled for the first train. Eighty other women hoped to sing in that one performance of A'ida but Housewife WTallack won the contest with her strong, clear tones. Asked for an interview, Impresario Paul Sydow refused...