Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American mothers, a Philadelphia lady named Anna Jarvis reasoned some years back, are overworked and underpaid. They should be recognized, rewarded on one day a year. She took her idea to the florist around the corner who forwarded it to the national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed-jacket vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public which has proved to be the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut-rate telegraph plaudits has taken Mother's Day to its soft...
...season. Some lighter music among the rest would perhaps be appropriate, but the vernal atmosphere and the excellence of the singing were still there. There's another one next Tuesday. After the program you'll have a chance to sing the College football songs, if that's your idea of a good time...
...played with the idea as he flipped his notebook from hand to hand. A committee to solve all conflicts! In his hazy mind's eye, he imagined a crowd watching the news roll around the Times Tower and yelling II, IV, VI, VIII, who do we appreciate? So simple too--give each problem a number and get everlasting peace. Vag hurried to reach University Hall before his white hope had faded...
Sure, said Eaton, he was there when they talked about stabilizing the stock, but he didn't say anything; he just listened. The stabilizing was not Eaton's idea; it was that of Henry's son Edgar. "Did you approve it?" asked the SEC examiner. Eaton replied: "No." Eaton said he would have been glad to carry out the underwriting "if conditions were right...
...half-English by choice, as Churchill is half-American by birth, colorful, eloquent, holding fast to his opinions in the face of staggering reverses, he was to novelists what Churchill was to Britons in World War II-their battered but undefeated champion. He was the great embodiment of the idea that fiction is an art, and that it is art that makes life, that gives it interest and meaning...