Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a discussion of the authorship of The Prisoner's Song. The same song, with the familiar music, has been sung in the mountains of north Georgia for at least 40 years. My mother and my grandmother sang it many years before 1924. The music and the general idea is the same as the modern version, but the words have been modernized. Other readers too will probably write giving more exact information of the true source and age of this song...
...come back at an hour when they would be open to the public. The reason why General Goring was thus dawdling in Vienna turned out afterward to be because of an elaborate ruse devised by the German Minister to the Austrian Republic, scheming Franz von Papen. It was his idea that Goring should as if by chance happen to appear on the Vienna station platform just as Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg was about to depart for Budapest to attend the funeral of Hungarian Premier Julius Gombos. The Chancellor would then be obliged, as a matter of courtesy, to invite Goring into...
...field in which Judge and Puck were already established. Single-minded Publisher Mitchell went ahead with his plans, engaged as literary editor a young man named Edward Sandford Martin. Six years out of Harvard, where he was a founder of the Lampoon, Martin had the definite idea that that college comic could be transmuted into a professional periodical...
...store with a woman chief executive. The job went to Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie ("Tenney") Odlum, sprightly wife of Floyd Bostwick Odlum, who had discovered the store among the assets of one of the investment trusts picked up by his Atlas Corp. during Depression.* It was Mr. Odlum's idea that the logical person to run a women's store was a woman. Since then the Odlums have been divorced, Mr. Odlum marrying Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, Mrs. Odlum becoming Mrs. Porfilio Dominici by mar rying a Paris surgeon. The corporate relationship of the Odlums, however, was not disturbed...
...wants to be a horse. He has practiced until he can run on all fours and leap fences. As she watches him, Kit wonders if all men want to be horses. Sometimes Kit speaks to Author Anderson. "We howled," Kit tells Author Anderson, "it was such a crazy idea...