Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...study the structure of the present constitution it self. It will consider the mechanical workings of the Council and suggest solutions for the various small problems which have cropped up in the first years of operation. The members of this committee, mostly Councilmen, will be the technicians; the idea men will work for Rauschenbush...
...result, Banks argued, the movies generally are not offering the little woman "the type of emotional experience she wants, and anybody who thinks the menfolk in the family are going to the theater if she's opposed to the idea just isn't being realistic...
Venus' husband, Vulcan, was a good guy and the god of fire besides, but he was so jealous he couldn't stand to have her out of his sight; his idea of fun for his lovely bride was to have her hang around his forge while he pounded out odd jobs. Anyone but a god would have known that a Venus was bound...
Actually Erskine's Venus had a rather exalted idea of love. She wanted it to be "creative" and became quite embarrassed when her sexy brother-in-law Mars talked about its "animal implications." At the same time, she got a great kick out of spying on Achilles and Polyxena as they made love in a grove outside the walls of Troy. It was also true that looking at her musclebound Vulcan after he bathed made her forget supper and the problems of the world...
...husband's idea in sending her to Mulberry was to insure her safety. Mary expected to be bored to death. For one thing, her father-in-law, Colonel James Chesnut, was 91, blind and deaf. But, as it turned out, Mary felt neither entirely bored nor entirely safe. One day she wrote in her journal: "Our cousin, Mrs. Witherspoon of Society Hill, was found dead in her bed. She was quite well the night before . . ." Mrs. Witherspoon, it developed, had been murdered. Her son, riding away, had foolishly told some of the slaves that he was going to punish...