Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea is to bring a girl to the state of mind where she will look at a dirty floor in her home, not with a groan and a thought of how she may escape tidying it up. On the contrary, she will look at a dirty floor with critical eye, think how much better it will be when it is cleaned up, and set to work with the newest thing in mops and cleansers to complete...
...service convention of the Phillips Brooks House Association, to be held at 7.30 o'clock tonight in Peabody Hall at the Phillips Brooks House. The conference is intended to bring together all men in the University who have an interest in social service and to give them a clear idea of the work carried on by the Social Service Committee. Refreshments will be served after the speaking...
...court, for instance, avails himself of the services of a seductive military attache. Since all state treaties are in the hands of men who are in turn in the hands of their wives, it is the attache's business to handle the wives. Such, at least, is the idea that forms this comedy which probably would seem all right in French, though it was originally written in German (by Rudolph Lothar and Fritz Gottwald), but sounds too broad in English. The tool of France is in this instance played by that notable actor of elegant gentlemen, Basil Rathbone...
...unique office is the idea of Frank N. Doubleday. Mr. Doubleday, no longer young and somewhat invalided as a result of sleeping sickness during the War period, does not see many people. He prefers the unconventional seclusion of this motor office to the telephone jangling and the unchanging aspects of "conference rooms...
Following up this idea the Bishop expressed the opinion that easy, quick methods of bettering the world in any one particular are all too varied. Though each proponent of a plan may be utterly sincere in his belief, the fallacy of the reasoning is self evident...