Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jane Russell plays the entire screenplay deadpan, which is evidently the extent of her acting ability, but in the case perhaps deadpanning is the best idea. The audience was captivated by her charm (and figure). One other actor should be noted, Chief Iron Man Cody, who plays an unidentified redman admirably...
...Patrick's first 1926 six, had been on the outs with papa Patrick. As vice president and a substantial stockholder in the Garden (which owns the Rangers), Lester Patrick was obviously in a position to make it tough for Boucher. But Boucher insisted that the change was his idea, not Lester Patrick's. The job of manager-coach was just too big for one man (all the other clubs have split it up). The Rangers now have eight farm clubs and 284 players, and Boucher wanted time to scout them for new talent. Son Lynn Patrick...
...only a slight relaxed flutter; then the left one dragged while the right one kicked three times. The crowd cheered Handy's demonstration, but most coaches were a little skeptical. Handy was sure that time would vindicate him. Said he: "When I was younger and got a new idea, I'd get out and break a record. That would show 'em. I'm too old to do that...
...bring certain problems out of the physicist's slide-rule realm into the everyday trial-&-error world of engineers who might solve them and perhaps make good use of the results in other industries. For example, Committee Member Isaac Harter, director of Babcock & Wilcox Ltd., got an idea from an atomic process that helped his company refine its continuous steel casting process...
Absolute Woman. In letter No. 11, Lawrence became more emphatic. "You must work out the idea of a new state," he insisted, underlining the word "must" 15 times. Lawrence suggested that in addition to a male "Dictator" the new state have a female "Dictatrix" too, in fairness to the female population. The ultimate aim, he continued with passionate wooliness, was "a perfect government" dedicated to "the highest good of the soul, of the individual, the fulfillment in the Infinite, in the Absolute...