Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still the fashion not to talk about "war aims." Nevertheless, in the press and among the people, the talk or bickering about how to get on with the war has become insensibly involved with notion: about how society ought to be organized now and in the future...
...fallacious to assume that all the adherents of the "well-made" school of playwriting indulge in melodrama to the exclusion of any notion of mood, building up incident and situation, at the expense of character. Miss Hellman does write contrived melodramas: "The Little Foxes," for instance, is so admirably constructed, so logical in development, so clever in its thematic manipulation, that it seems, at times, too pat. But emotion is not lacking in it, or in "Watch on the Rhine" which builds to a tremendous climax of sentiment. Other recent melodramas, such as "Angel Street" and "Ladies In Retirement...
...widespread notion that the Army had adopted the European system of calling men up by age groups rather than by number was spiked last week by War Secretary Stimson. The lottery system still prevails. If the Army wants a new batch of soldiers, they will be gathered from the rolls of all three previous registrations in proportion to the number of them in each pool, and low-number men will be the first selected...
...authored books on legal finance, spies, gastronomy, rats, spiders, eels. He collaborated on a play with Maurice Maeterlinck. Jazz, at first his passionate hobby, is now his profession. For him there is only one worth-while kind: hot, improvised jazz. "You must hear Lombardo," he says, "to have a notion of what not to do in jazz...
...return from Russia, declare: "The trouble with Hitler . . . was not that he was a Nazi at home; the trouble with him was that he would not stay at home." To many this sounded as though their Foreign Secretary, and by inference others in the Government, had a curiously warped notion of Naziism...