Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read your magazine called TIME at various clubs and hotels on my stops from coast to coast and the idea came to me today it would be an excellent plan if you would allow me to run a weekly checker column in it. Am well known throughout the entire English-speaking world and am sure it would enable you to get many men subscribers in clubs as well as at private homes. Can give you one of the finest weekly columns in the world if you care...
...because so many of them are indecent, Colonel Wedgwood leaped up and shouted: "No sir! You are all wrong. Beware that you do not plunge us from the American whirlpool into the French cesspool! Perhaps I shouldn't put it like that. But let's get away from the idea that American films are immoral. Dull they may be. Sentimental, sloppy 'sob stuff' you do get from America. But immorality never...
...Rochester Company is made possible by George Eastman, famed camera man. To him the idea of opera in English, sung by. U. S. and Canadian musicians, seemed worthy of a huge endowment, by which the Eastman school of music is supported, in association with the University. As a result, young singers are trained, presented in English Grand Opera in a repertory that includes Mozart's Abduction From the Harem, The Marriage of Figaro; Puccini's Madame Butterfly; Gilbert & Sullivan's lolanthe and Pirates of Penzance; and Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana. In Manhattan, the first three were presented. From...
...plays are produced would not only be impractical in New York, but it is doubtful even whether it would be the most satisfactory method. In the first place, I believe it is wrong to censor a play before it is produced, for in this way, some new yet valuable idea, might be killed before it could be brought forth upon the world. Next, to place the jurisidiction in the hands of one man would be difficult in New York...
...demanded the must careful regulation. It would not have been entirely pessimistic if, for this initial venture, the prime movers of the project had limited themselves and had sacrificed the more elusive attempt of bringing men and women together on such a oruise to the welfare of the original idea--which was to conduct a practical experiment in tenching. Coeducation is in itself a delicate proposition; to introduce it into a world tour of college students does not aid matters. Both the general idea of a floating college and the principle of coeducation suffer. Governor Allen is correct...