Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife's wish. With him was a 17-year-old youngster (the brother of the girl at the inn) who happened to be a pickpocket by profession. One day, when Negishi wondered aloud how he would ever pay for his wife's holiday, his companion advanced an idea. In one day, the pair lifted 800 yen ($2.20) from passengers on the Tokyo subway. Negishi acted as lookout while his young friend exercised his skill. Next day, both were arrested by a plainclothesman on Tokyo's pickpocket squad. Cried the culprits in unison: "We have failed." Said...
Although night harness racing (trotters and pacers) is a profitable enterprise in many U.S. localities, after-dark running races have made only a small start in one state (Oregon). Old-fashioned breed improvers are appalled at the very idea of displaying the sport of kings under lights; trainers, who like to work their charges in the cool of early morning, hate any thought of changing their customs; and jockeys dislike the idea of joining the nightworker class. But a few horse-park operators have been dreaming, somewhat wistfully, of the potentially big turnouts they might draw after dark...
When little English Soprano Maggie Teyte first got the idea of doing a new version of Gounod's Faust, she had Hitler in mind: "I wanted to show how Hitler, too, was a Mephistopheles, pulling wires and moving people around just as such men have through history ... I thought the Faust story would be a powerful...
Since Ethel Merman has earned more than $1,000,000 in ten Broadway musicals (Lindsay & Grouse are at work on an idea for a new one), making a living is presumably not a major worry. One of her friends, puzzled by her offstage venture, asked, "What do you expect to get out of your radio show?" Merman answered shortly: "A sponsor...
Italian friends said that he was more skittish than ever about marriage. The town gawked at the idea that she was chucking the movies, then brushed it skeptically aside. Next day, in an interview in Rome with the New York Post Home News's Earl Wilson, Actress Bergman backtracked a little, but left it plain that she was fed up with the life of a movie star...