Word: geniuses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...matter how price control is administered, it works against the essential genius of U.S. industry, inspired by the profit motive to produce more & more at a constant rise in wages and living standards. An economy with price controls is not really free enterprise at all-the vital forces of profits, competition and the free market cannot operate...
Dedicated to Hard Hearts. Although as a popular printmaker he had earned enough money for the comfortable, quiet family life he wanted, only a few friends (Henry Fielding, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson) had recognized his genius. "The picture dealers, picture cleaners, picture-frame makers and other connoisseurs"- as he contemptuously called his critics- thought Hogarth's work could never compare with what he dubbed "the old black masters." Said Hogarth: "They think I hate Titian, and let them...
...Chapman tells the story of Watts' five spiritual wives and an absurd legal union with an incipient genius, the girl model Ellen Terry, when he was a middleaged, lukewarm gentleman and she an actress with a vocation as irresistible as his own. On the only occasion on which Ellen mentioned it to me, she described how, when she was only Watts' model, she came home one day and informed her mother triumphantly that she was going to have a baby.. Watts had kissed her-and she was young enough to believe that babies were the result...
...first generation's Henry Ford had gambled on the $5-a-day wage and his industrial genius to land him atop the auto heap. Now, the third generation's Henry Ford II was taking another gigantic risk. The stakes were just as big. Young Henry hoped to put the company once more on top-or lose his shirt trying...
...France. Paintings which he had once sold for the price of a few drinks were valued at 1,000,000 francs. Said an art critic of L'Ordre: "Modigliani became a legend the day of his death. Everyone was bewildered at not having encouraged, supported, foreseen his genius...