Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past few years has arisen the notion that something is wrong with the colleges. From the volume of literature that this notion has produced one might infer that everything was wrong with the colleges. There is apparently no reason for this sudden flux of collegiate concern, just as it is certain that there is no rhyme to it. Perhaps it has come because never before have the American institutions of professed higher learning been so popular. Perhaps popularity and excellence run by contraries...
...hatters of that time took up the notion, erected gongs outside their stores, and established the fifteenth as the date when no he-man would continue to wear his straw...
Israel Dubois, a New Orleans blackamoor, has fought bravely through the War in the Foreign Legion. Therefore he gets the notion that he is qualified to marry a pretty French barkeeper, which he does, after romancing to her of his vast estates in the U. S. Not until his old master, Major Edward Powell, stumbles into the café and explains to Lise just what a Negro is, does she understand that her husband has been lying...
There was, just after the War, some difficulty in sending money from the U. S. to certain states in the interior of Europe. To insure safety, people who wanted to do so entrusted their currency to travelers rather than the mails. Jake Horowitz got the notion that it might be profitable to act as a paid courier for this purpose and set out, with several companions, to do so. By the time the party reached Paris, they were broke. When they drew lots to see which one should stay in Paris instead of going further, Horowitz got the short straw...
...making Shakespeare modern has extended itself for the coming year to the producers of musical comedy. Like an abdicating heavyweight champion in their homely adoration, George White and others have decided to honor Shakespeare in the only way they know, with naked nymphs and syncopated madrigals. White's notion is a "modern musical version of Romeo and Juliet" but last week, rendered foolish by the astonishing success of his Scandals, he forgot about Shakespeare and said that he was going into the talking movie business. He was tired of soothing temperamental stars...