Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belasco's ancient yarn about the mad, bad days in early California. Walter Pidgeon, sheriff of Cloudy Mountain, and Bandit Chief Nelson Eddy are rivals for Jeanette MacDonald, pastel-tinted proprietress of the Polka Saloon. Eddy's dimples, wavy hair and roly-poly pinkness satisfy the popular idea of a rakehell bad man about as well as they did that of a West Point football player in Rosalie. Miss MacDonald's concession to her role is a rolling walk and belligerent way of batting her eyelashes. Best song: Soldiers of Fortune...
Knotty problems had caused the delay. Mixed up with the idea of a magazine for insiders, Publisher Smart had another idea of a magazine for the underdog, militantly antifascist. First editor hired was Jay Cooke Allen, whose scoops as a foreign correspondent of the Chicago Tribune qualified him to edit a magazine for insiders. Off to Europe he hustled last summer to rake up new background, returned and began to gather a staff of militant liberal writers...
...idea of Ken apparently savored too much of historical study, and not enough of gumshoeing to suit Messrs. Smart & Gingrich. So he, virtually his entire staff and all their works were scrapped. To take Jay Allen's place came another onetime Tribune correspondent, George Seldes, iconoclastic author of You Can't Print That! and Sawdust Caesar. But another snag turned up. Prospective advertisers balked at taking space in what they regarded as a pinko magazine. Ken became anti-communist as well as antifascist, some of its bright young liberal contributors were alienated and George Seldes, while retained...
...building the great high-altitude Air Corps' B-17 bombers which last month jauntily flew 10,000 miles around South America. Dissatisfied with Douglas' progress and convinced by Tomlinson's tests that upper-air flight was feasible, T. W. A. became sold on Boeing's idea of a big passenger fuselage for the well-tested wings and tail of the Air Corps' B-17 bomber, ordered six. Its weight, too, would be just within the "Big Five" agreement-42,672 lb. When this order became known T. W. A.'s competitors howled that...
...would be a good idea for everyone to come back to school and get their ears slapped down after being out in business for a while." Asked what he intended to do upon graduation, Stone replied, "I have nothing in mind, but this kind of training is invaluable for business or government work...