Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Turkish harems. Last week one of his five adopted daughters, Miss Zehra, petite and brown-eyed with jet-black bobbed hair, tumbled from a Calais-Paris express, fractured her skull, died. Said the English Headmistress of St. Margaret's school near London: "We did not have the slightest notion that she was homesick. She seemed intensely interested in the theatre...
...directors, however, had their own notion of their duties to their 120,000 stockholders. They had at hand the opinion of Baltimore's Federal District Judge William Caldwell Coleman, who had pronounced the Act unconstitutional "in its entirety" (TIME, Nov. 18). They also had the opinion of a Philadelphia law firm and of a Philadelphia lawyer, onetime (1922-27) U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper. A stanch Republican, a devout Episcopalian whose portly figure is as familiar in Philadelphia as the facade of Independence Hall, Lawyer Pepper set a U. S. record for per-vote campaign expenditures when...
...years ago in Menard, Tex., a six-foot bricklayer named Ernest Elmer Baker got the notion that his religion, Pentecostalism, would cure Russian Godlessness. He would, he told his father, who gave him $1.40 to start on the trip, "preach the Gospel to the Bolshevik! under the Kremlin wall." After tramping without visas over Germany and Poland into Russia, Ernest Elmer Baker ended up in a detention camp at Minsk, where he was identified last summer by the second secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Moscow (TIME, July 1). Last week, with $100 raised by his family to repatriate...
...Three Lakes, Wis., Ezra Worden, 74, whose advertisement for a third wife got on national press association wires, pawed through 411 applications, discarded Southern women because "by the time they'd get clear up here a man might be out of the notion of marrying them," picked Mrs. Maggie Cornwall who lives 22 mi. away, passed the rest of the applications to his unmarried son Marvin, 36, and accepted the thanks of Charles Olson, chairman of the Ezra Worden Wedding Day Celebration Committee, for "all the publicity Ezra's given Three Lakes...
...when he spoke of the "extreme sanction" (blockade) as something into which not even the League of Nations could get Great Britain unless he knew beforehand what attitude the U. S. would take-i.e., that Washington would help. By last week Statesman Baldwin was rounding his rough notion smooth. "The most extreme sanction," he declared wisely at Wolverhampton, "would be a very difficult one in the absence of three countries now outside the League-America, Japan and Germany...