Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that we want to foster but the spirit of peace. Thirdly, there is our attitude toward religious films. I may say that we would not have passed The King of Kings. The producer, probably surmising as much, did not submit it. The chief objection would have been against the idea of an actor impersonating the Founder of Christianity...
...present delegate system is hardly an expression of true democracy. The men who will represent Massachusetts in the coming Republican convention, for example, have no idea whom they will vote for. They pay their own railroad fare to get to the Convention and they will east their vote so as to get the best possible return from it. The delegation should really be a group of errand boys who have been delegated to vote a certain way by the people of the state, and who will do it. If you were to take a poll of a deaf and dumb...
...stage divertissement offers Our Gene in front of some of the best scenery that every emanated from the Publix studios. The exact idea is rather difficult to grasp but it seems there was a hunting party. Mr. Rodemich's frenetic drummer is quite delighted with his little hunting cap. It's a good thing too--the boy has not been a bit contented since he wore that toga plus a hair-ribbon come these two weeks...
...Thirty years ago I opened an office at Waco, when horned toads were so plentiful that boys were selling them for five cents each. I conceived the idea of mounting a few of the larger specimens and using them for pen racks...
...judge, not expecting a quick decision, left the court. Three hours later, he was fetched from a nearby village and driven back to the courtroom. The jury had reached a conclusion. Whether because they believed the stories the witnesses had told on the stand, whether they disliked the idea of convicting the winner of a beauty contest, or whether, and this was the most likely reason, they felt an instinctive reluctance to accept as mundane evidence a secret that had been intended for the ears only of God, they announced that Mrs. Alma Petty Gatlin was not guilty...