Word: notion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since 1935. Cotton was down to 7.70? per lb., wheat to 86? per bu., copper to 9.06? per lb., lead to 4.67?per lb., rubber to 14? per lb. Though no informed businessman, economist or politician in the U. S. gave credence to the notion, Europeans of high & low station suddenly became convinced that the recent U. S. efforts to stimulate business would shortly be climaxed by further devaluation of the dollar in order to raise internal commodity prices just as Brazilian coffee has lately risen internally on a depreciated milreis...
Conquest (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). For several years Greta Garbo has been toying with the notion of doing a screen play based on the love affair between Napoleon Bonaparte and Marie Countess Walewska of Poland. The notion was in the Hollywood tradition, for most producers like royal historical episodes for an important star. They give the star dignity. If dignity is its purpose, Conquest admirably succeeds. It moves with the fateful and august tread of history itself. Its huge, expensive panorama (running time: 2½ hours, cost: $2,000,000) embraces a quarter of a century and three-quarters of Europe...
...nights. I've Got the Tune, with Composer Blitzstein singing the role of Mr. Musiker, was his and the Workshop's first venture in radio operetta. For some listeners, Blitzstein's mocking libretto was not without class-conscious implications, even his wiry-muscled music suggesting the notion voiced in The Cradle Will Rock-that "there's something so damned low about the rich...
While other popular explanations of the week ranged from a theory that the market crack was another 1906 "rich man's panic" to the notion that it was a "capital strike" against the New Deal, one fact became increasingly clear: whether or not pessimism over fall business prospects was at the root of the market's drop, the market's drop had certainly dragged down fall business prospects...
...mythology of both hemispheres, saliva is often associated with conception. It is reported that among the Gypsies a woman who wishes to have a child will drink water into which her husband has spat. "Spit an' image" is, in all probability, to be traced back to a mystical notion of this sort. LESLIE A. WHITE Dept. of Anthropology University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich...