Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bigwig Socialists and Radical Socialists who received the Cabinet's best plums were mostly Frenchmen who have made their mark as faithful party wheelhorses. Some idea of the calibre of these men could be had from the fact that France's longtime League of Nations Delegate Joseph Paul-Boncour, who for years has been willing to serve with almost any Cabinet, was understood to have rebuffed overtures from Premier Blum, declaring, "I will not serve with such nonentities...
...bundle of blank aluminum records, a lean, scraggly-haired New Yorker has been touring the South for the past nine years, collecting Negro songs that few white men have ever heard. Like his older brother Artist Hugo Gellert, Collector Lawrence Gellert is an ardent Left Winger. He scorns the idea that most Negroes when left to themselves will either sing spirituals or dance to the blues. The songs that fascinated Lawrence Gellert were those symbolic of Negro class consciousness, unrest and despair. From more than 300 that he has collected he published 24 last week as Negro Songs of Protest...
...time, and our memories need not run very far back to illustrate my point." Mr. Prince, he observed, would be getting a "rather heavy toll," and his first lien on M. & St. L. income would make RFC's first mortgage, in effect, a second mortgage. Lastly, the whole idea was "a delusion in that it holds out false hopes to everyone interested in the road...
...Arenas, largest town in Patagonia, southernmost city in the world. Few tourists find their way there. Patagonia is a forbidding land of glacial mountains, dense forests and windswept plain, where women are scarce and the men are hard cases. Not because they wanted to avoid trippers but because the idea ex- cited them, Herbert Childs and his newly-married wife went to Patagonia on their honeymoon. She had been there before, had heard tales of an English settler far in the interior who might be good copy for a book. Getting to Patagonia was exciting in itself. They were...
Jimmy was glad to see the Childses, delighted at the idea of being put into a book. In spare moments from his sheepherding, he spun them the yarn of his adventures. When Jimmy came to Patagonia, in 1892, it had been an even wilder land. In Tierra del Fuego, where he went first as a herder, the Indians were being hunted and killed like wild animals. Naked Indian women were kept tethered outside the herders' tents until their pregnancy made them a nuisance. There was little law but the gauchos' own. Jimmy liked the life...