Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every Newsman instantly knew, was restless Joseph Medill Patterson, 67, the maverick journalistic genius who sired the slick, expert, irritating, irreverent, gamy newspaper with the biggest circulation...
...They're saying I'm a wild man. If I turn the trick, they'll say I'm a genius...
Enter Ferrer, a rare genius in the American theatre. This is the man who made Margaret Webster's Othello with his real and living Iago. He has at least equalled that triumph with Cyrano. This character, plagued by an obscene nose, must be "all things." After the first act, Ferrer makes the spectator forget that nose. Declaiming with high spirit, he leaves the audience gasping at the arched flight of his slick patter. He is meant to be a swashbuckler, and Ferrer gives it everything as he swaggers and gesticulates in the mixed role of philosopher, poet, soldier, and self...
...gone all the p.m. Conceived a great work to immortalize me to all posterity . . . 'Confessions of an Egotist.' . . . Went off to walk with Freshman Thompson in the p.m. Visited a cider-mill [and] got some sweet cider and good apples. Conversation ranged widely: religion, poetry, schoolteaching, genius, societies, etc. . . . [With another student] discussed the Episcopal Church . . . preaching, prostitution, and a variety of other subjects. . . . Found the North College semi-joe [outhouse] all in a blaze, surrounded by students apparently not very anxious...
...that time," he went on, "only two other guys besides me used to ride them, and one was considered a queer and the other was a cripple who didn't walk very well. And I mustn't forget old Professor Julian Coolidge, the math genius. His biking only added to his eccentric reputation...