Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond in his odd moments of musing on this and that and things in general, that the impressions of things which are gained during childhood continue to tinge one's thoughts even after they have proved to be wrong or mistaken. True enough this is no new idea--the Vagabond does not flatter himself so much as to suggest that--but it struck him rather forcibly last night when he noticed that Professor C. K. Webster was going to speak on Palmerston and the Eastern Question at 10 o'clock this morning in Harvard 3. When he tried to think...
TIME did not quote Subscriber Campbell directly, but erred in giving too broad a meaning to his industrial-farm idea...
...nature of a bitter gesture. He said, in as many words, that, since the public was so insistent upon cleanliness and purity in the theatre, he would give them a chance to support a clean, wholesome, pure, enjoyable play, or prove that his "girl shows" are the right idea. As a matter of fact, his play is all he says it is, though little more...
...Tell the Wife (Irene Rich, Huntley Gordon). The idea of a wife giving her errant husband tit for tat by holding hands with an old friend of the family, is simply immortal. The "variation" here introduced is to have another old friend of the family perform two marriage ceremonies which only he and the audience know are faked. Then comes the excruciating suspense while pajamas are unpacked and coverlets turned down. Whoso remembers a strip called The Marriage Circle has known this picture in a previous and superior incarnation. When U. S. counter-jumpers try to be Europeans, not even...
Mirrors and pictures, guiltless of the crime of area, are allowed full freedom of the walls. Such accoutrements, intelligent, it must be admitted, are more feminine than male. Broad-beamed gentlemen denizens remain skeptical of the idea...