Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...detestable as to be undeserving of the common title Mr., Mrs. or Miss, the courtesy accorded all other races, I wonder if W. C. Poynter and other Southern gentlemen of his ilk can without a blush of shame, stand in the presence of their wives and daughters and explain to the world just why, in so far as physical appearance is concerned, the color line is so rapidly vanishing. Surely even Poynter himself must know that if the stranger in certain sections of the South relies solely on color he is decidedly unable in many instances to distinguish a white...
There gentlemen were quick to explain that this was not an old Lampoon custom but a Christmas present. Whedon, when interviewed, declined to comment, but Bob Lampoon, who was appointed guinea guardian extraordinary, suggested that this was not a surprise in so much as the Lampoon had been keeping birds of one feather or another for some time...
...speak disrespectfully of these loyalties; but they make Sir William's Toryism equivocal and they perhaps explain the shrillness of his note. . . . When he went to the Home Office he went with soul aflame to cleanse the social sewers. Drink, gambling, night clubs, all the brood of darkness should know that at last a real St. George was abroad in Merry England. But no blow fell. On each adventure he was quietly and painlessly disarmed, and he learned, what some of us had suspected, that Puritanism is not a strongly marked characteristic of Toryism and that it does...
...particularly emphasized the importance of building mathematically complete theories of atomic structure and of determinating the resulting frequencies. So far as he knew, this had not been done for a single case hitherto. It seems to be wise not to abandon the attempt to explain laws in this way on the basis of an underlying continum of space and time, despite the fact that the quantum theory has been tending in the opposite direction...
...predecessor, proves that the latter was no mere tour de force nor a long-polished secret gem, but an inspired creation the like of which may be expected yet again. The subtitle of Galahad is a very fair sample of Erskine wit: "Enough of his life to explain his reputation." The strength of the irony is as the strength of ten because Author Erskine exercises restraint, discretion, grace instead of horseplay. Member of the English faculty at Columbia University, facile, dignified, popular, 47, married (1910), Author Erskine's most recent public act of moment was reading a memorial poem...