Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first and most ovious reply is that the idea of pay is inimical to the idea behind college activities. All of these, whether they be athletics, newspapers, or dramatic associations are generally backed by a seal for the greater glory of the college or of the men in the activity itself. The feeling that all the work is intracollegiate, that it is merely a mimicry of the outside world, leads to something very like that dubious sprite, the amateur spirit...
...wide enough basis to benefit many. The matter should be worth serious consideration, however, for in theory it has much to commend it. The practical application of the plan on a small scale, in the managership of the polo team, should, at any rate, prove extremely interesting, and the idea may prove to be worth carrying further
...loving Cincinnati businessmen, young Outcault walked into the office of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World. He had some cartoons of life in a place called Hogan's Alley, of which the hero was a one-toothed, big-eared urchin. He thought it would be a good idea for the World to run his cartoons in color. The World thought so too. The urchin of Hogan's Alley appeared in a yellow nightgown. Thus was born the first colored comic strip...
...idea of Tige trying to chew one of Buster's stockings was used by a manufacturer of hosiery to show how tough his product was. Other Busters were proud to wear these stockings because they felt that Brown was "a great...
...Brice told her "own story" and some Indians were observed worshipping God-in-Nature on a mountain peak (via Underwood & Underwood photograph). Mrs. Stillman wrote on Paris fashions, not far from a huge photograph of herself. The U. S. institutions discussed-and apparently believed in-were "West Point-Its Idea" and "Broadway-from Pabst to Nedick." There was no discussion of the flag...