Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...round the performer. In the case of the holy man referred to what your readers will not realize is that such a man is not out to do stunts. His chief business is with God, and night and day he lives practically in the open with his disciples. The idea that he should have had the apparatus described by your correspondents is preposterous to us in India who know these holy men. Were I in India now (I happen to live in Madras) I could take the matter up and arrange for a physical examination by doctors and see that...
...Herbert Hoover's chicken and two cars most concretely in Detroit's suburban Hamtramck, declaring: "I am thinking of a better future for America, a future of more wages, more holidays, shorter hours, Saturdays off and Sundays off as well. Some people would call it boondoggling, this idea of providing more facilities for recreation, but if that is boondoggling then I am for boondoggling...
...Saturday Evening Post, Herbert Johnson displays a belief in the righteousness of U. S. Business and the Republican Party as unwavering as the lines of his workmanlike cartoons. Once he pictured "Government in Business" as a banyan tree whose roots curled out to strangle honest enterprise. He liked the idea, improved on it in a second cartoon by turning the banyan tree into an octopus named "New Deal...
...merchant said that it was a poor idea to have the Governor riding in the same car with the first Executive". As the President left the state without even a polite statement endorsing the Governor's candidacy, this casual opinion may have been more widely held than the Governor liked...
...through the Square on Wednesday, the Inquiring Reporter stopped a well known local character. "Well," said this man, who did not want his name revealed, "I was a little bothered by the hissings and booings. They may have been for Curley, but at any rate it was a poor idea to have the Governor of Massachusetts riding in the same car with the First Executive and his wife...