Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather than his daughters, who milk the cows. A salesman of dairy farm equipment, ignorant of bovine prolificacy, when he saw Alta and six calves in one pen, inquired if she were the mother of all. Poth, seeing an opportunity to fool a "city slicker," did not discourage the idea. The salesman told a news reporter...
...Premier's eldest son, Vittorio, 21, explained in San Francisco last week. There his partner, Hal Roach, in the new Roach and Mussolini cinema producing firm R.A.M. (TIME, Oct. 4), was sued last week for $30,000 by Dr. Renato Senise, the Italian who originally thought up the idea and brought Roach to Rome. In Hollywood, Messrs. Roach and Mussolini had been more & more embarrassed as fewer & fewer people came to their parties and the "20-day" instruction period young Mussolini was to put in in the film capital was cut to seven after cinema trade papers carried full...
...addition to Mr. Taylor, who adds by his positive presence, mention might also be made of author Lloyd Douglas in general, and in particular of his noble idea which in a more or less butchered fashion serves as the theme of the story. A man finds completion of life through anonymous benefaction. Although the idea fails to be put across much except in a few philosophical sprinklings by Ralph Morgan, people who like pictures with a message may derive consideration throughout of what course the development of the theme might have followed...
...Commission. It is true that William O. Douglas . . . acquired the rudiments of his education in the public schools of this city, but that does not account for the vagaries of his later life. . . . No, it must have been in the halls of Yale and Columbia that he acquired the idea of becoming a crusader and an irritant to all dealers in stocks and bonds...
...They Gave Him a Gun" is the story of a youth whose aversion to killing in 1917 turns into his source of income as a racketeer after the Armistice. Knowing he is weak both in physique and in character, the War teaches him the warped idea that with a gun in front of him he is as strong as any man. Franchot Tone, looking less like a plucked chicken than usual, gives an excellent portrayal as the dough-boy gangster, and he is adequately backed by the performances of Spencer Tracy and Gladys Goerge...