Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of the untrue general opinion that the British press is so much better than ours and the equally inaccurate idea that U. S. newspapers cover foreign news completely-I'd like to know if U. S. and other alien newsmen are being kept out of India and Palestine by London's orders...
...Such official explanation only made more obscure Sir Samuel's reasons for making such a statement and British officials were obliged to disclose further the surprising fact that today the French General Staff is cold to the idea of having a British land force again rushed across the Channel as in 1914, though the French are hot to have all possible British fighting aircraft dispatched on the first outbreak of hostilities...
Pennies from Heaven (Columbia) is a textbook example of the oldest adage in cinemaking: Nothing ruins a picture more effectively than too many good ideas. Best idea wasted is the character of Larry (Bing Crosby), a jailbird minstrel whose most prized possession is a 13th-Century lute, in an elaborate routine, involving a letter from a condemned man to Patsy Smith (Edith Fellowes), orphan of a murdered father. "Pennies from Heaven-the coins tossed down to him from tenement windows-are the currency with which Larry undertakes to support Patsy and her Grandpa (Donald Meek...
...moment of real magic when Larry is singing So Do I, best of the John Burke-Arthur Johnston ballads, in a dim courtyard, strumming his lute, while Patsy revolves around him in a grotesquely graceful, childish dance. Screenwriter Jo Swerling, however, quickly dropped development of the Pennies from Heaven idea. He set his characters to making a haunted house into a night club, then switched to a carnival background, then to an orphan asylum. The thread on which the latter episodes are strung consists of Susan Sprague's (Madge Evans) efforts to put Patsy in the orphan home...
Bert Lahr, famous funny man, also believes that the parietal rule is a good thing. He rounded out his remarks with the statement, "It's a good idea for the faculty, but I suppose not so good for the students...