Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aside I might add that my notion of an ideal religion would combine the dignity and the beauty of the Romanist ritual with certain other ingredients: the good taste and the ability of the Unitarians and Episcopalians-a trait not too common to some of the evangelical groups-to mind their own business. I'm proud that I never set myself up to be my brother's keeper, having been sufficiently occupied by the job of being my own keeper. To these add the noble ethics and the splendid tolerance expressed in reformed Judaism; the study of independence...
...Negroes. Volleyed California's State Tax Administrator B. B. Bratton: "Louis B. Mayer is losing [that] adroit sense of . . . the fitness of things which marks the master showman. . . ." Thundered George A. Beavers, of the Golden State Life Insurance Co.: "It is sheer folly for Jews to entertain . . . the notion that they will escape the wrath which racial and religious bigotry let loose when tensions are increased by propaganda novels like Uncle Tom's Cabin." Boomed the Negro press: Uncle Tom was a socially significant work in its day, now it is just a reminder to the Negro...
American Advantages. His key notion was that human destiny centered in a world-girdling belt of the Northern Hemisphere which he called the Isothermal Zodiac (see cut). In this area lived 95% of the white race, and here, where climate and topography were most favorable, had flourished the greatest empires and highest civilizations...
From the Enemy. Jap prisoners of some Marines on Guadalcanal, Kahn relates, spent half the time boasting about their leaders, the other half begging for cigarets. "One Marine first sergeant hit upon the happy notion of requiring that each Jap, before getting a cigaret, recite loudly: 'Tojo is a son of a bitch...
...motion before he took over. General Wilson finds himself today commanding a theater which was once the western Allies' big show, but has now been downgraded by tactics and politics. In earlier days the Mediterranean fighting seemed the start of Winston Churchill's widely advertised notion of striking at the soft underbelly of the Axis. Now it is clear that the European underbelly was not so soft as advertised...