Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Terms. The figure of exports and imports was fixed at 25,000,000 rubles each, the idea being that each country may import from the other no more than it exports, thus equalizing the balance of trade...
...Carte, In the opening number, the Master of Ceremonies announced that Miss Rosalie Stewart's- revue is called A La, Carte, because, out of the variety of offerings served, the audience is requested to take what it likes and leave the rest. That is a capital idea. Unfortunately theatrical limitations impose upon Miss Stewart's revue, as indeed upon all others, the table d'hote principle. You cannot taste her chicken and custard without swallowing her bean soup and sauerkraut in the same performance. There is, first of all, a dancer, Harriet Hoctor, who, as a fairy...
...stage designs executed for the Theatre Guild (Manhattan). He may have some claim to the second as a result of his announced revelation that Diego Rivera, Mexican painter of little international repute, is the greatest artist in the world. Being a Socialist, Artist Rivera subscribes to the idea, "From those according to their ability, to those according to their need." Therefore, he painted the patio (inside court) of the Ministry of Education Building in Mexico City, refusing all recompense above a common laborer's wage. There are 138 murals in the court. Most of them describe feasts, ceremonies, daily...
...Pork is a good food. One of the best. Religion may forbid it, but that idea will die with the older generation. While pork has been avoided with horror for generations as 'unclean,' it is now being eaten by our younger generation...
...Emons, of Akron, Ohio, conceived the idea. He reasoned that horses' eyes must be as fallible as human eyes. He invented tests with lights. But no one would listen. Finally he borrowed Mr. Bradley's ear. He examined some of Mr. Bradley's horses and found one with weak eyes. He set a small hurdle in front of the beast and Mr. Bradley watched the horse walk toward it and bump his shins. Mr. Bradley ordered his whole stable tested. Dr. Emons made glasses for four of them. They race truer. Previously near the rail or in a bunch...