Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is, of course, a moral to the tale--the old adage that love is more than skin deep and that a few dermal alterations won't make the course of true affection change. You may have dropped this notion the same year you recognized poppa's schnozzle above Santa's whiskers, but "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" will make even the most case-hardened cynic wish he believed it true...
Thirty-two of Britain's leading ladies marched last week into Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's office to demand equality with men in Britain's Diplomatic Service (now for men only). They gushed scorn on every common objection from "marriage would interfere" to the notion that an Oriental potentate might take a peculiar view of a lady ambassador...
...oath of allegiance, he pronounced such ripe ambiguities as: "Since the day when, by the irresistible force of circumstances more than by will, and above all, my own, I was placed at the head of the State, I have multiplied appeals to common sense, to reason and to the notion of public interest...
Actually, joint returns will simply mean that wives and husbands with separate incomes will in many cases move into a higher tax bracket.* But women felt that the rule raised a long-laid bogey: the notion that a wife's property belongs to her husband...
...Bloomsbury the working press is supported by many officials of the Ministry itself and a sizeable slice of Parliament, all of whom think full British news coverage and adequate propaganda are now dangerously hobbled. Opposed to the press is Winston Churchill's War Cabinet, which believes in the notion that Britain's war effort needs no "vulgar publicity." In that notion it is at one with most bigwigs of the armed services...