Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Only the Communist assumption that what is good for the Soviet Union is good for American labor could justify Mine-Mill's position. Only constant subservience to the Communist Party can explain it." Mine-Mill, said Potofsky, was dominated and its policies set by a four-member steering committee, which took its orders from Eugene Dennis and the rest of the hierarchy of the Communist Party. The Reds ran the union newspaper, its organizing staff and its leadership. The veto power of 44,000 members was only "theoretical...
Lifted Eyebrow. Not even Godfrey himself can quite explain how he does it. Some students of what the public likes profess to see the answer in the "shine of naturalness" reflected by his use of such words as "doggone," "ain't" and "gotta" -the sort of determinedly rustic phrasing which led Fred Allen to call Godfrey "the man with the barefoot voice." His drawling, "God-gifted" voice has been variously described as "warty," "briery," "wood-raspy," and even "like a shoebox full of bullfrogs...
...under the system of informing prospective students of Harvard's financial aid picture, there will be someone to explain this picture to athletes both before and after they come to Harvard...
...apparently Rossellini is correct in charging that most of the scenes explaining this conversion lie on the floor of the RKO cutting room. Certainly as it stands now, her conversion is one of the most absurd scenes ever filmed. Having at last gotten the money needed to leave her husband and the village, she is seen the next moment charging up toward the very mouth of the volcano whose rumblings have terrified her till now. Just what is going on as she plunges upward through the smoke remains unknown to the audience until the narrator's voice booms forth...
...Tuesday meeting, the Faculty had called up Captain Carroll T. Bonney to explain the interpretation and application of the oath at Harvard, and before the afternoon was over, the Faculty had instructed its NROTC head to tell the Navy in Washington that Harvard's teachers think the "informer clause" should be stricken from the certificate. Such an expression carries so much weight that a three month campaign of many groups and individuals toward the removal of the "informer clause" may soon be very successfully concluded...