Word: notion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behaved as lordly little scamps. One pinched another who started bawling so loudly that he had to be rushed out by an adult. After the benediction, as the Duke & Duchess of Norfolk were returning up the aisle, pew occupants were obliged to restrain another page who persisted in the notion that it would be jolly if he could manage to step on the bride's 15-ft. train of shimmering silver...
...that excellent oldtime silent picture The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the lead was played by a skinny, macabre Viennese named Friedrich Feher. Mr. Feher is now a grey-haired, heavy-set man who looks like the composer he has become. Two years ago, Composer Feher got the notion of a cinema in which music would bear the burden of narration. With his voluptuous wife, Magda Sonja, and his chubby son, Hans, in the main roles, he wrote, composed, directed and cut The Robber Symphony. It won immediate success in Europe, was chosen one of the ten best pictures...
...modern world is bewilderment. This bewilderment he would attack with a return to reason. To him the university is the place of all places to grapple with those fundamental principles which rational thought seeks to establish. Too much of education, he says, is based on the false notion that education is a substitute, instead of a preparation, for experience. Of legal education he says: "To tell a law student that the law is what the courts will do and have him reach his conclusions on this point by counting up what they have done is to forego rational analysis...
Traveling on business last summer, Publisher Walter J. Black was struck by the number of people he saw reading small monthly magazines of the Reader's Digest type. Mulling over this trend, Mr. Black conceived the notion of a "digest" monthly to give readers boiled-down versions of full-length books. This week the U. S. saw the result-a 25? Book Digest, of which 75,000 copies were distributed to the stands of American News Co. First issue of Book Digest had condensations of ten recent books, fast-sellers like John Gunther's Inside Europe, Herbert Asbury...
...experienced, are we not headed for serious trouble at the next downward curve of the vicious cycle and would it not be well to remember as the credit sales mount to an ever higher peak that beyond the highest peak there is always a valley?" Not daunted by this notion was Joseph L. Fowler, of Boston's Jordan Marsh, who urged the end of the dunning letters, proposed for delinquent accounts notices that were "mild in tone, neat in appearance, impersonal in nature." An outside suggestion carne from President Frederic Arlington Williams of Cannon Mills (towels) who said...