Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Ashurst's notion that some Senate hearings have lacked dignity, a quality which he does his best to impart. Best sample he gave last week was when Dorothy Thompson, asked whether the President's proposal would not have been considered fantastic a year ago, responded...
Chief U. S. illusion, says Priestley, is the notion that Americans are dyed-in-the-wool individualists, and for that reason hostile to the Russian collectivist scheme. The truth, he argues, pointing to the easy way of mass U. S. propaganda, to the lavish Russian imitation of U. S. ways, is exactly the other way round. "That is why," he concludes, "America is the country of awful flops and sudden gigantic successes." In short, "the average modern American" is a socialist at heart, but does not know...
...good notion...
Congratulations. A 24-year-old California bachelor and onetime junior golf champion named Daniel Hill Sangster is the publisher of the new magazine which, because of its special public, need get out a new edition but once a year. Publisher Sangster's notion is to give a volume called Congratulations free to every woman who has a baby in a top-notch private U. S. hospital. Profits are to come from advertising sold to baby-food makers, perambulator manufacturers, insurance companies, and anyone else with a message for mothers...
Last week in Manhattan, with no impunity except his own brilliance, Chicago's Hutchins shredded the complacency of nearly 1,000 members of the New York State Bar Association with an indictment of the limited notion lawyers have of their profession. Then, with equal candor, he propounded his philosophy of law on which he built a program for legal education. Then he dared the Bar really to reform legal education. His dramatic appeal did not come kindly to all the listening legalists in the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom, but they voted him an honorary member of their Bar in admiration...