Word: brainchild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...causes. As a matter of fact this step was an unnecessary precaution as was evidenced by the exclamation of one woman who was scanning the reams of political literature which was thrust into here hands by zealous admirers of one thing or another. One said "Defeat Wealthy Harvard's Brainchild--Plan E." "Hey, Pastl" she summoned her assiduous escort, "Who's dis guy Harvard...
...product of this trend is Candidate McMasters who polled 48,000 votes in Massachusetts' Republican primary for Governor, although he did not have the official Townsend accolade. Nor was his deal with Candidate Saltonstall the brainchild, as many observers guessed, of shrewd young Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. It was engineered by an opportunist even shrewder: William Henry McMasters...
Played like roulette, with the mouse replacing the white ball, the game, called Cardette, is the brainchild of 28-year-old Gambling Dealer Everett MacDonald. Cardette, says Inventor MacDonald, requires no bait, can't be fixed, pays better odds than roulette...
...cripple Porgy, this time with music for himself and the 75 other blacks living in Catfish Row, returned last week to Manhattan. He was still the brainchild of Playwright DuBose Heyward, still the protege of Manhattan's Theatre Guild which took him under its wing eight years ago. For one week Porgy and Bess, with a 700-page score by Composer George Gershwin (TIME, Sept. 30), played in Boston, won high praise. On opening night in Manhattan half the Somebodies in town crowded in to hear this latest attempt at a U. S. folk opera...
...best known living historians of Peter Rabbit, Harrison Cady did not invent the character, is not Peter Rabbit's only illustrator. Peter Rabbit was the brainchild of Beatrix Potter, a gentle English lady skilled in telling stories that children really like, and illustrating them in sly effective watercolors. First published in 1904, Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit books have sold by the hundreds of thousands, are cherished by adults who spurn her imitators. Besides the Tale of Peter Rabbit, other Potter best sellers include: Tale of Benjamin Bunny, Tailor of Gloucester, Tale of Two Bad Mice, Tale...