Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in the ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan, 2,000 men and women in evening dress sat down to an expensive banquet. Each had paid $205 for the privilege-$5 for the food, $200 because Anne Morgan had an idea. There was, of course, a speakers' table, lifted not so much by carpenters as by its occupants-a half-dozen ambassadors, a sprinkling of ministers and delegates from the world's various corners, and Anne Tracy Morgan who thought nothing of summoning them. Coffee finished, they arose in diplomatic order to speak. Sir Esme Howard told...
...first Prohibition decision ruled that the phrase "two-thirds of both Houses" meant two-thirds of a regular quorum in each House;† the Prohibition Amendment was legally passed under this ruling. But to Senator Uriah Tracy, Gouverneur Morris wrote in 1804: "The idea that two-thirds of the whole number of Senators and of the whole number of Representatives are required by the Constitution to propose an amendment is certainly correct." Under this interpretation, the Amendment would not have passed Congress in 1917; the present Prohibition law is clearly unconstitutional...
...Statler, hotel operator: "My son Milton likes jazz and he can play the traps. Last week he proposed to me that I let his friend, young Roger Wolff Kahn, furnish dance music for all my hotels for about $1,000,000 a year. I said that I approved his idea, but I told him that I would have to talk it over first with Roger's father, Otto Hermann Kahn...
...Little Jeff was the inmate of an asylum Mutt visited to make wild bets in peace. Swift, efficient bundle of nerves, Mr. Fisher ran with Walter Eckersall on a championship team at the Penn Relays 25 years ago. His income, somewhere near $200,000, affords him art and idea assistants...
...father's candy store and ice cream parlor. The family had come from Denmark in the '90s and this confectionery business meant their prosperity. Christian dished out bulk ice cream with chocolate flavor; sold packages of brick ice cream and bars of chocolate. Thus came the idea of a chocolate bar filled with ice cream, that is, a stick of brick ice cream coated with chocolate. Russell Stover, Omaha ice cream maker, said that he could make the confection. He invented the name Eskimo...