Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Horton, said in part: "Probably the most immediate way of discovering a poet's character is determining his sensibilities. Crane was so obsessed by the idea of making a poem the immediate experience that he turned language and syntax inside...
Just before the play was to begin, the Sealyham shot after a fat biddy with blood in his eye. The idea spread to the five Scotties, and in a few seconds hens were clucking all about the stage looking for shelter...
...years. On the site in 1806 was built Charleston's famous Planters' Hotel, where dusty Southern palates cooled to prime Planters' Punches. Remodeled in 1835, the hulk of it stood in dejected shabbiness 100 years later, when the FERA, on the prowl for projects, adopted the idea of Mrs. Burnet R. Maybank, wife of Charleston's mayor, for salvaging the old hotel and reconstructing the historic theatre at the same time...
...Francisco pressagent lately wrote: "When you come right down to it, a great World's Fair is the architect's form of that good old American custom, the Binge. . . . He can work in the realm of pure fantasy without worrying much about his client's idea of how a building ought to look, because he is using (perhaps happily) impermanent materials and because his real client is the general public, and what the general public wants is not utility, but romance and beauty and drama. For a World's Fair is. no matter what the brochures...
...week 33,724,295 patrons had paid some $4,746,000 to see the Fair's gaudy structures clustered along the Seine. To reopen them next year is expected to cost another $16,950,000. In the Chamber of Deputies this week there was strong opposition to the idea from outlying provinces which dislike the thought of their trade suffering while Paris gains...