Word: notion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contest for the amateur championships was not spectacular. It was held far from the grandstands and but for eloquent Announcer Jack Storey, the crowd could have had little notion of what was taking place. To the 39 contestants who had been practicing for weeks, however, and to sportsmen pilots throughout the land, it was enormously important. For years they had wanted some kind of national contest to give their sport a definite status, and to remove the stigma of "sissy pilot" which, some of them felt, was a popular synonym for "sportsman pilot...
From Brookes, who was one of the world's best players from 1907 to 1920, Champion Crawford received more than his notion of what kind of bat to use. Now a Melbourne manufacturer, in his middle 50's, Norman Brookes still plays formidable tennis. Last winter he teamed with Vines in a doubles match against Gledhill and Gerald Patterson, whose victory at Wimbledon in 1922 was the last by a British subject until Crawford's this year. Brookes's stubborn ambition to bring the Davis Cup back to Australia had something to do with the tour...
...Phillips Holmes, Jean Hersholt, Madge Evans, Grant Mitchell and the late Louise Closser Hale, perform brilliantly and avoid each others' toes. Good shot: Kitty Packard making up her mind to give her maid a bracelet. Paddy, the Next Best Thing (Fox) is very clearly Fox's notion of the next best thing to Metro's Peg 0' My Heart. It is an idyll of the Irish countryside, dripping with Hollywood blarney, Janet Gaynor's girlish charm and terms of endearment like "acushla...
...Palmer Findley, 65, is professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Nebraska's College of Medicine, councilor of the American College of Surgeons, onetime president of the American Association of Obstetricians, Gynecologists and Abdominal Surgeons. He weights his book with many a quaint or appalling notion once held about childbirth, admits that posterity may find present-day ideas equally ridiculous. For laywomen & men who want to round out and freshen up their knowledge now, he offers a sound, thoroughgoing outline of modern facts and opinions about birth. Some of them...
Irked by this notion of his constituents, he cabled Judge Keidan from the London Economic Conference last month that "complete testimony cannot be given without my presence." Last week he kept insisting that he knew more than he would tell, and if Detroit's bankers failed to furnish all the facts, Senator Couzens hinted darkly that he would then give the public the truth...