Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt is no warmonger. For years she has talked and worked for peace. Four years ago she argued that "the war idea is obsolete." Three years ago she still hoped Hitler would work out his destiny through the League. A year ago she expressed the hopeful wish that some day there would not be armies, but just a world police force. But by last February she had to conclude that "moral rearmament," as proposed by the Oxford Movement, for example, would not be enough. "I mean," she wrote, "that, much as we may dislike...
Lightning. More specific reason for the manning of naval anti-aircraft came in another official leak. INS Correspondent H. R. Knickerbocker reported that the British Admiralty apparently had learned of Nazi plans for a "demonstration" bombing flight of 500 German planes just to give Britons some idea of what might be in store for them later. The Admiralty was evidently convinced that German military leaders would try out the Douhet "lightning stroke air attack" theory of war and that the first stroke would be an attempt to immobilize the British Home Fleet...
Three months ago convivial L. M. Parton, secretary of the Nocona Chamber of Commerce, conceived a publicity stunt. His idea: a 2,000-mile pony express race from his little (pop. 2,352) North Texas leather-manufacturing town to San Francisco, to tie Nocona to the tail of the Golden Gate International Exposition...
...stunt shows which purists deplore (e.g., "Great Rivers in Art" or "Paintings of Pigs") to loftier surveyals of important art forms. In the lofty class this week Manhattan's rich M. Knoedler & Co. presented "Classics of the Nude"-31 pictures from Pollaiuolo to Picasso. This was a good idea. The linear play and complex modeling of the human body, the textures, transparencies and color subtleties of the skin, have made nude painting what Bernard Berenson called "the most absorbing problem of classic art." To do the subject justice an exhibition would have to include several items not visible...
...late great James Gordon Bennett, it was for three decades a society paper for those expatriates of whom Henry James liked to write. It carried whole pages of yachting news, maintained its own coach to Versailles, was written in two languages, with the somewhat quaint idea that people who spoke both French and English liked to read their news the same...