Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McIntyre book, The Big Town, a collection of "New York Day By Day" columns. In his own "Bowling Green" column in the Saturday Review of Literature Mr. Morley ironically recalled that McIntyre had long been a Morley enthusiast. (Sample McIntyre column note: "The most perfect verbal silversmith, to my notion, is Christopher Morley.") Morley went on to say that McIntyre had been so carried away by his enthusiasm that for 15 years he consistently cribbed Morleyisms in his daily columns, now in book form. Wrote "Chris" Morley...
...Love, the heroine of Love Me Forever is a struggling opera singer. In this one Miss Moore meets an underworld cabaret owner (Leo Carrillo) who falls in love with her, contrives to get her a job with the Metropolitan Opera, suffers severe pangs until she gives up the notion of marrying a Boston socialite...
...himself, handed the U. S. Legation a gracious iradé (permit) to build. Hence it happened that in 1869 there began to rise on the Bosporus bluffs five miles from Istanbul and 5,000 miles from Boston an amazing phenomenon-a New England preparatory school & college founded on the notion that mutually hateful young Turks, Greeks, Bulgarians, Armenians, Syrians, Persians could be gathered in Christian harmony, given a sound New England schooling...
Deep-rooted in lonely Emma's mind is the notion that humans' when they die, are reborn as animals. Beginning with this seemingly absurd assumption, Thames Williamson creates a series of remarkable coincidences which strengthen the old maid's belief, builds them up to a thoroughly dramatic conclusion which will satisfy the reader who has opened the book with some hesitation...
...Priest Coughlin is committed to no one else. Politically, he remains a free lance. He may line up with Huey Long for a single fight or a series of them, but he will make no visible permanent alliances. He disclaims any notion of a third party. His six-month-old National Union for Social Justice, for which he claims 8,500,000 members, is a "people's lobby." That its will is the will of one man, not even he could readily deny...