Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leon Schlesinger, Mr. Max Fleischer et al, make most of the animated cartoons produced in the U. S. Of the man who makes the rest and the best, Mr. Schlesinger recently observed: ''We're businessmen. Walt Disney's an artist. With us, the idea with shorts is to hit 'em and run. With us, Disney is more of a Rembrandt...
Disney's Folly. Wary Hollywood, which scoffed at sound ten years ago, scoffed at the idea of a seven-reel animated cartoon. The Snow White project was referred to as Disney's Folly. Rivals said he had bought a sweepstakes ticket. Shrewd older Brother Roy Disney, the business brain trust of the Disney enterprises, surveyed Snow White's final bill of $1,600,000, observed: "We've bought the whole damned sweepstakes." In the Disney film, Snow White, the delicate stepdaughter of the Queen, is a dark-haired girl with a doll's oval beauty...
People's Choice. If all these things did not quite measure up to the U. S. idea of a free democratic election, they were nonetheless quite a big enough dose for Russian minds and Russian methods to cope with. Getting ballots and pencils to the places where they were needed was a big job and there were occasional slips of the new electoral machinery as when, in Simferopol, one of the polling places designated was a house torn down some months ago; in Rostov-on-Don where a polling booth was placed inside a cinema so that it was necessary...
...fuselage, 200 ft. by 25 ft.; weight, 200,000 Ib. with six engines each 2,000 h.p. Only the memory of P. A. A. and Colonel Lindbergh's plans for the first Clipper six years ago-then dubbed "impossible" and called the "flying miracle"^-saved the idea from being utterly fantastic...
...short, 68-year-old Rumanian-born Laurence S. De Besa, who claims his father was physician to the last Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro II. Mr. De Besa first drew attention in the newspaper business five years ago when he went to Cuba to sell dictatorial Gerardo Machado the idea of running a special Cuban section in Hearst newspapers. Having sold the idea, Mr. De Besa adroitly sold the advertising space to Cuban interests, then collected and wrote a glowing account of Boss Machado & friends which appeared only in the Washington Herald. After similar activity on behalf of Guatemala, Colombia...