Word: whims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another Dalton tax measure, allowing only half the money spent on advertising to be deducted as business expenses in computing income tax, the Wall Street Journal pungently commented: "The hate of the Marxians ... for advertising is no mere whim. If you believe that the purpose of making and selling things is to furnish people what they choose to have, advertising appears useful. . . . But if you believe that the mass of consumers are subhuman, bound to do something foolish and destructive if left to themselves . . . advertising is a terrible thing. It is likely to cause people to want something and [that...
Holy Cross, October 18--WHDR; WACE; WHOB; WKNB, New Britain. Connecticut; WHIM, Providence; WRRK, Pittsfield: WAAR, Worcester...
...music of whimsical, young (35) Don Gillis was getting a hearing partly because of a whim of Toscanini's. For three years, Gillis had been NBC's Producer of Symphony Programs. On the side he has written 42 compositions, most of them earnest but light things. Some, out & out musical gags, bore such titles as Thoughts Provoked on Becoming a Prospective Papa. Toscanini, who sometimes likes to indulge his ability to make a 24-hour sensation out of a young musician, announced that he would play a piece...
...Pretty Whims. The destiny of the young republic, by Feuchtwanger's account, turned as much on the personal interplay between these characters as on General Washington or the Continental Congress. Without Beaumarchais' stubborn vanity and romantic ambition, the revolting colonies might not have armed the troops that forced the British surrender at Saratoga. Without that victory, Franklin's mission might have failed. Even with that victory, says Feuchtwanger, Franklin owed his success less to the wisdom of French policy than to a whim of Antoinette. It will probably be news to paid-up members of the D.A.R...
...dubbed "Senator" by fellow-students in the Law School during the early Twenties, sounded off last night on the state of the nation before mounting the speaker's rostrum at the Law School Forcm to talk about the state of the world. Today's Red Scare he terms "passing whim" and the current communications crisis has caused him to envision a possible "national authority to regulate utilities...