Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...response to U.S. urging, the British reluctantly recalled their Ambassador, Sir David Victor Kelly. Argentine nationalists have long believed that Britain was their firm, beef-eating friend, even if the U.S. was not. Ambassador Kelly's recall, threatening joint action by Britain and the U.S., shook this happy notion...
...Generally this man is not a sinister character. He often has a hazy notion of public service somewhere in the back of his mind, and convinces himself, at least, that he's doing the best he can. The point is that he exercises power. . . . His cronies are the bankers, the manufacturers, the utility operators, the department-store tycoons. . . . The ideas he absorbs and the attitudes he reflects are those of the well-heeled upper crust...
...Mabel's Room (United Artists) is such a strong smell of camphor that only the most insensitive cinemoths can survive it. On the notion that a terrible wheeze, properly delivered, can be even funnier than a good one, the revival of this stone-age (1919) stage farce might have turned out very well. But all the players handle its dim demi-wit as if it were Oscar Wilde epigrams...
...Havoc," when it appeared on the West Coast as a play, had a dramatic idea. The notion of throwing people together and then dooming them, while not new, was most timely, and the character portraits were finely drawn. The show ran eight months...
...thing about it all is that the average man, making up his income tax or with some other worry, hasn't the foggiest notion of what Lord Halifax did say and, what is more, doesn't care . . . which is the way, we fear, with a lot of those hectic controversies which politicians, publicists and pundits imagine to be historymaking, but which in the end don't matter at all. The publicists, pundits and politicians get themselves all worked up and imagine that all the rest of us are worked up too, when the truth is that...