Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whoever it is that's responsible for this really malicious story, or whoever they are, the idea is pretty false. With out mentioning any names, here are a few facts...
...Maxims and Hints for an Angler," by Robert Seymour. The pictures in this book show a short, pudgy figure with glasses on the end of his nose and with a long tail coat, the exact counterpart of Dickens' famous character. The fact is that Dickens probably derived the idea from the drawings of Seymour...
...Secretary of the Treasury rounded out his picture by explaining that the new kind of gold standard is "a way of doing business which has never been tried before" and that President Roosevelt thinks it is a "good idea...
...occasionally tedious and pictorially beautiful synthesis of several Greek legends of family murder, with each of its three acts corresponding to a whole play as handled by Euripides and Aeschylus. It is the first produced play of Author Turney who. now nearing 40, is reported to have nursed its idea ever since he left Columbia University. In the part of Clytemnestra it presents, in her U. S. debut, a German actress of considerable reputation named Eleonora Mendelssohn...
Fifty years ago last week at Chicago, a triennial General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church prayerfully considered and at length approved a four-point formula for Christian Unity. Adopted by a Pan-Anglican Lambeth Conference in 1900, the Lambeth Quadrilateral stands today, a noble idea like the League of Nations which may some day work. Its formulators invited all Christendom to accept: " 1) the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as revealed Word of God; 2) the Nicene Creed as the sufficient statement of the Christian Faith; 3) the two Sacraments -Baptism and the Supper...