Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening that the Department of Justice might well bring suit against them for a combination in restraint of trade. Surely it is a plausible theory that the editors of the Lampoon had been bribed by Yale not to suggest, in preparation for the debate a single risible notion of which the Harvard team could make capital...
...Story hinges upon war regarded as an agapemone, a lust fest. To focus this notion there is Sylvia Tietjens. To contrast war with quiescent civilization there is Christopher Tietjens of Groby, her husband. Both are extreme types, impossible in life unless recent English divorce cases were toned down in the newspapers...
Womanhandled. When Gloria Swanson was making Manhandled at the Famous Players studio, some one suggested that "Woman-handled" would be a good title for a picture. Certain members of the concern held up their hands in tasteful protest but the notion persisted. This is the picture and indeed much better than the title deserves. It is a light comedy about steam heat and tennis courts on the erstwhile supposedly primitive ranches of the West. Richard Dix, good actor, is the star...
Major Griffith was conducting his survey with a preconceived notion. Representative of a body devoted to the defense of amateur ideals in sport, his purpose was to show how professionalism in a sport hurts that sport. His summary of the case was: "Baseball is no longer the national sport for amateurs." A not unreasonable conclusion and certainly a salutary one, but one that appeared to leave out of the reckoning other possibilities...
...American Legion this fall in Omaha). It referred to Lawyer Bryan's insistence that the only real issue of the trial was a religious one, and his insistence that literal interpretation of the Bible was the religion he and his colleagues were championing. It reduced to absurdity the notion of setting up the Bible as an educational criterion, in this fashion...