Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Gaston came into being year and a half ago when Chateau Martin's president, a onetime hosiery man named Martin Lefcort, decided that it would be a good idea to have a Frenchman plug his California wines. The notion was developed by Chateau Martin's advertising agent, Herman C. Morris, whose outfit whipped together a series of chats by a comic Frenchman, who, after a sip of Chateau Martin '39, uniformly wound up: "I go queek get my citizenship papers." This folderol, tried over a few stations, was so successful that Chateau Martin upped its spot announcement...
...wall at the end of an athletic field, where spectators could view it. WPA agreed, under a standard arrangement whereby it would furnish the work, the board the cost of materials. The wall and bas-relief were to be poured as one concrete unit. But that notion had to be abandoned. Not until last week, with the school long since finished, was San Francisco within reach of its big frieze...
Ever since Zola, writers have tried to commit to paper the daily living of average families. "Naturalism" had a notion that an account of how such a family struggles through its oatmeal, breeds another generation to do likewise, could present all human life fearlessly and whole. The result of this literary theory has been some good amateur anthropology, a titanic amount of dullness, little...
Mickey Began It. The idea for Fantasia had been germinating in Disney's mild-looking head for several years. Even before he did Snow White he had a vague notion of some day doing a serious opera in animovie style. As early as 1929 he raided the high-brow symphonic repertory to make Saint-Saëns' bone-rattling Danse Macabre into a Silly Symphony. But the idea did not really sprout until early in 1938, when Leopold Stokowski, on a visit to Hollywood, begged Disney to let him conduct the music for The Sorcerer's Apprentice...
Stripped of their ambiguities, those points constituted in substance a call for less federal regulation of business--particularly an end to the present "punitive" attitude, and "adjustment of taxes and government restrictions" to "take off the brakes," and an abandonment of the notion of "nationalizing" any industries. There were, to be sure, random phrases which taken by themselves would make Johnny New Dealer himself happy. But the emphasis and the overall impression was conservative--in the sense of being a recommendation for government self-limitation...