Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practically completed, looking towards the early operation of a service . . . between Bermuda and the U. S." Of the route east of Bermuda he had nothing to say. But Major G. E. Woods Humphery, managing director of Imperial Airways, who arrived from England a few days later, promptly dismissed any notion that it could be opened in less than two years...
People who are reluctant to use the airmail are in few cases deterred by the higher postage (5¢ for first, 10¢ for each additional ounce). More general is the notion that an airmail letter may never reach its destination. Last week the Post Office department made known that the fire hazard is less for airmail than for mail shipped by rail or water. And burning is the only manner in which air mail ever is lost...
Elizabeth The Queen is a sabre-rattling, pompous historical pageant which relates Maxwell Anderson's idea of the love of the Virgin Queen for the Earl of Essex. Author Lytton Strachey's notion to the contrary, Mr. Anderson's Elizabeth (Lynn Fontanne) and Essex (Alfred Lunt) are heroic amorists whose sturdy devotion is thwarted only because they love power more. To indicate her robustness Mrs. Lunt feels called upon to pitch her usually pleasant voice very deep in her throat and to speak her lines as loudly as possible, the effect of which is not unlike...
Mulling over these two facts, Ferdinand Schaefer, a local violin teacher, conceived the notion of a co-operative orchestra, the musicians to play without pay until there were net receipts to divide. The musicians had nothing to lose, the union agreed...
...ended in the spring disinheritance . . . . weekend Indeed, why the Hoosick Whisick party itself wasn't over for eight days . . . . not until somebody found the last mural moosehead floating under Harvard Bridge and the plumbers had removed a stuffed badger from the innards of my open plumbing fixture . . . . a pretty notion of a weekend, just getting the, old grad back and doing a job on him . . . . what about my reputation? . . . . last year you know damn well you pushed me through the cold buffet in the Copley dining room . . . . yes and said I was cockeyed . . . . well maybe we had, but not enough...