Word: notion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yours has done. Your entry into this branch of literature partakes of the character of Strachey's entry into the province of biography. Your demonstration that informative articles concerning current events need not be melancholy is a public service. You help to establish the falsity of the notion that there is no royal road to learning. Your disregard of all known conventions of journalism, and of some conventions of etiquet, is as refreshing as a julep...
...expected to be-always able to confound doom's fifers by playing in any situation dependable, heady, incisive tennis. To every man comes a moment which he can mistake for his "chance." Certain sports writers hinted that Johnson might win. It was an unlikely, a fantastic notion. It might therefore, come to pass...
Many hundreds of thousands of persons, apparently, have suddenly conceived the notion of going to Florida this summer, buying some land on a shoestring, splitting it into lots during the fall, and selling at huge profits to a horde of grateful "investors" this winter. In Wall Street this is a familiar process, known technically as "accumulation" and "distribution". It works as long as the investors get real value for their money, and continues for a certain period there- after until the crop of hopeful lambs begins to thin out. Only these who own no Florida land and have no intensions...
...actors gave it themselves. Three married couples and a butler set out to nationalize women in Yonkers. One of the couples is just leaving home after quarrels; one is just arriving after an elopement. Opposed to the butler's Soviet theories is a heaving sea captain with a notion to hammer anyone mistreating a woman. All this loudly played, and not amusingly...
Several bond houses wrote back, politely but firmly discountenancing the notion of preferring stocks to bonds as investments...