Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rotary International was internationally roasted last week by a Catholic bishop in Spain and a Methodist pastor in Manhattan. Because Rotary clubs seem to him to omit the religious idea, because it is "damnable for individuals or societies to try to moralize with a naturalist or atheistic doctrine," the Bishop of Valencia issued a bulletin discouraging Catholics from-joining the clubs...
...This [cooperative] idea is sound and I predict that exhibitors in all parts of the country will have to see its soundness or be swallowed up by the great motion picture machines...
...idea for the building was conceived by Mr. W. B. Foshay, who has taken his inspiration from the Washington Monument at Washington, D. C. The building, which is a tower, rising from a two-story base, is 447 feet and three inches in height above the street. It is 81 by 87 feet at the base and 59 by 65 feet at the top. It is as far as we know the only commercial building in the World that has sloping sides and where the set back occurs at the second floor placing the building proper away from street noises...
...idea of the Religious Film Trust won quick approval: to retell biblical stories in pictures with mechanical word & music accompaniment; to make sound-pictures of famed metropolitan ministers in action; to present such sound-picture programs in churches, Sunday schools and other religious assembly halls...
...Willard Huntington Wright, critic and Smart Set's onetime editor, whose history may be found in any copy of Who's Who. He lives in Manhattan. "Recently," says he, "a bright reporter, who had read too much, oh, far too much! Sherlock Holmes, conceived the brilliant idea of visiting my home (I live in an old remodeled dwelling of many apartments) and checking up on the names in the mail boxes. There he found my own card in one box, and in another box the card of S. S. Van Dine. He twitted me gloatingly with the discovery...