Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China said farewell to the man who had fought for her so long with so little. Major General Claire L. Chennault, genius of the Flying Tigers and commander of the Fourteenth Air Force, was going home...
...defeat in order to seize personal power. He maintained that Pétain had secretly ordered cooperation with the Allies in North Africa. Testily he exchanged taunts with ex-Premier Paul Reynaud. If Pétain had erred, said Weygand, it was the fault of "his evil genius," Vichy's Chief of Government Pierre Laval...
...Both prosecution and defense objected. Presiding Judge Pierre Mongibeaux decided: "Nobody will understand if we do not hear Laval now. . . . I would like to see the Marshal, who was only a piece of bric-a-brac in Laval's hands, brought face to face with his 'evil genius...
...Germany would win the war?" . . . (The hoots swelled into a roar.) Screamed Laval: "I am not a Nazi. I am not a fascist. ... I hate war-even when we win, and we always lose. ... I love the republic. ... I resent being called Pétain's 'evil genius...
Pietro Mascagni had one flash of genius. He was 26, a penniless ex-conductor of a fourth-rate itinerant Italian opera company, when he heard of a prize contest for a new one-act opera. In eight feverish days and nights he wrote Cavalleria Rusticana, a fast-moving, lyric tale of love and murder in a Sicilian square at Eastertide. It won the prize, got its composer 40 curtain calls at its first performance in May 1890, and subsequently the Order of the Crown of Italy. In Manhattan, Oscar Hammerstein produced Cavalleria in English, and the Metropolitan Opera...