Word: einstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First cinema appearance of "New Face" Parkyakarkus was in Strike Me Pink (1936), as Eddie Cantor's stooge. As freakish, though not so foolish, as his soubriquet, Parkyakarkus is really Harry Einstein, a onetime Boston advertising writer who, when his friends found his Greek dialect monologs at parties hilariously funny, decided to merchandise his specialty. Response to a few local broadcasts encouraged him to apply for a spot on the nationwide radio hour of Funnyman Cantor, whom he had met socially. From radio, he went to Hollywood. "Parkyakarkus" is an adaptation of the informal invitation with which Dr. Einstein...
Senior mathematics students at Princeton Country Day School were asked to find two consecutive odd numbers the difference of the squares of which would be - 56. Stumped, they asked their fellow townsman Albert Einstein for a hint...
Would the numbers be positive or negative? Answered sage Einstein, "both...
...automatically eligible for an academic degree at Harvard. Many men of science and literature have been honored, but in reading the lists one cannot help feeling that the awards were extravagantly made and that a distressing number of the recipients were men of mediocre talents. Thomas Mann and Einstein honored Harvard by their very presence here, but it seems that the editor of the Emporia Gazette and the chronicler of Harvard history have yet to reach their full stature...
...German Government canceled the German citizenship of Mrs. Elsa Einstein, wife of Physicist Albert Einstein, who died at her home in Princeton last December...