Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...detoured to Callander, Ont., to get a look at the Dionne quintuplets. Once, drinking dark beer in Munich with a Yale crony, Monty Woolley, he decided to follow the trail of the brew as it grew lighter; they wound up in Pilsen. In 1935, Playwright Moss Hart got the idea of taking a world cruise and writing a show (Jubilee) on the way. He broached the idea to Porter at lunch. Recalls Hart: "Cole said: 'Let's go to Cook's.' By 3 o'clock, we had booked passage...
...wanderings. What Is This Thing Called Love? was suggested by a native dance in Morocco's Marrakech, and he developed the music of Begin the Beguine from a war-dance chant he heard in Kalabahi, a small island in the Netherlands Indies (he had already got the title idea from a Martinique cafe in Paris...
...Yale University School of Medicine. Adopting the Read idea, they made improvements as they went along. Last week Dr. Goodrich reported to Manhattan's Maternity Center Association the favorable results in 400 cases, the first wholesale trial of the Read treatment...
...well get used to the idea of more & more alcoholics. Now that people are living longer, the statistical curve of alcoholism is going on up with the curves of cancer and heart disease. This is the warning of an eye-opening book, The Problem Drinker (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3), published this week...
...subway advertisements. Someone told him that certain South Sea Islanders permitted an unmarried girl to bring a boy home for the night "as freely as an American girl could bring one home for lunch, and a different one each night, if she liked." Nock thought it rather a good idea...