Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here is an idea suggested by Vice President Garner's agreement with the President not to make any speeches during his term of office...
Last week the theory that a pun can be the highest form of propaganda was again tried out on the U. S. people. A little-known but potent organization called the Council of State Governments adopted and broadcast Balkanization. Intent: to convey the idea that trade fences erected by & between the 48 hitherto United States are becoming as dangerous to U. S. economy as Balkan feuds have long been to the life of Europe...
...once." Just like that! But who was this Jane Fuller, this dictator of the laws of nature? Should Vag, the cream of something or other, entrust his marital happiness to some unknown goddess in Milwaukee? No! And as he strode about the room in blustering defiance, a Great Idea came to him. The Government, that great paternal being, that impartial regulator of everything it can get its hands on, the Government should decide whom he should marry...
...idea grew. No more would he have to worry about the red-head from Smith. They'd take care of her down at Washington. Perhaps red-heads weren't anthropologically compatible with brunettes like Vag. Washington would know! No more worry about that little Radcliffe wench he'd met in Fine Arts class, either. A Senate Investigation Committee would probably submit a report showing how many Radcliffe-married Harvard men had thrown their wives out of windows in the last sixteen and a half years...
...think that Louis' playing is something he just happened to pick up on trumpet, listen to some of his vocals--things like "Nobody Knows De Trouble I've Seen" (Decca)--and despite the complete absence of anything even resembling the usual human singing voice, you'll get an idea of simplicity and sincere, deep emotion that'll make the Clinton-Shaw-Dorsey school of riffing look extremely sick...