Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Berkeley Square is a dignified and cerebral romance based on the Bergsonian-Einsteinian notion of Time, which hints that past, present and future are illusory, that the impression of fleeting moments, hours and years is not to be trusted. Suggested by Henry James's Sense of the Past, written by John L. Balderston, London correspondent of the New York World, it comes, like so many plays this season, from London. The story is of Peter Standish, young U. S. citizen living in his ancestral London townhouse, who likes the 20th Century so well that he suddenly finds himself back...
...international bank is no new notion. As long ago as the Genoa Conference in 1922 it was broached. And Switzerland was then urged as the logical location for the proposed bank...
...that it will bring a leveling of students to a uniformity in interests outlook, breeding, the conventional standards of society. But it must lead to a broadening of association and acquaintance, and we may hope it will give the last blow--if indeed one is needed--to the silly notion that "C" is the gentleman's grade...
Brigadier Hiram Johnson, fidgeting for the fray, demanded longer battle hours, suggested night fighting for a change. Suddenly, as if to dispel any notion that they were employing the famed desultory tactics of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus ("Cunctator"), the Insurgents with almost the entire Democratic army, executed a quick flank movement. With Freebooter Norris taking command and uttering blood-thirsty cries, the opposition Senator-soldiers marched toward the farm lowlands. In a fierce three-hour assault they pushed headlong into this neutral territory, laying behind them a long pipe line stretching from the U. S. Treasury marked Export Debenture...
...that story spreads, boys, I'm ruined. There are a lot of other ashmen in Portland, don't forget. Competition in this business is terrible. Once my customers get the notion I'm rich they'll give all their trade to my rivals. . . . Who knows what kind of a millionaire I'll make? I don't even know if I'll like it. I've never had any experience being rich. . . . Yep, it's all true enough, but I haven't got any fingers on the cash...