Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...original idea on arriving at Jefferson City was merely to do the history of Huckleberry Finn, but the sight of all that wall space, 1,000 sq. ft. of it, got the better of him. An emaciated Huckleberry Finn is there all right, watching a giant Negro land a fat catfish, but there are in addition Frankie & Johnnie and most of the history of Missouri. A slave trader is lashing a Negro, a buckskinned trapper in a fur cap is shooting his rifle. Mormons are being ridden out of town. There are also a country political meeting, a stenographer drinking...
...daughter by a former marriage, a finer girl whose beauty is inward. Deep-reading observers may be able to construe these two as symbols of their mother's condition, and the play as a subtle French study of the menopause. The U. S. translation does not articulate this idea, however, and when the final curtain falls with Miss Browne sobbing in a chair and Sir Cedric wandering vaguely off the set, spectators cannot tell for sure if the play or just the act is over...
...stock to customers as a likely investment. While the firm was selling the stock the market price went up. It stayed up, and last week was selling for about twice as much as the customer paid for it. SEC held that the stock had been manipulated with the idea of attracting buyers. Said Federal Judge Samuel H. West in Cleveland last week: "Many things have been done and are done by dealers desiring to influence others to purchase stock through manipulated prices, but these were all omitted here...
...Stratford Hotel.* Invidiously balanced against a paragraph pointing out that Peter Arrell Brown Widener II's fortune was established by his grandfather, the Record reported that James Harvey Gravell started to make a rustproof paint preparation in 1914 with nothing but "a bucket, a broomstick and a good idea," built up a $1,250,000 business with branches in Detroit and Walkerville...
Garbed in his habitual gabardine slacks and yellow turtle-neck sweater, the stage and screen star was the true feminine counterpart of the Harvardian's idea of dressing for comfort. Despite constant interruptions from the horde of autograph-seekers and hangers-on around her dressing-room, she shot back alert replies, seemed to enjoy her only exclusive interview during her brief Hub visit...