Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense that he has been during the war years a temporal embodiment to his age of eternal England, Winston Churchill can have no successor. . . ." Said Labor's Daily Herald: "There is not the slightest doubt that gratitude to Churchill as a war leader, admiration for his genius, and reverence for his courage is shared by every party and every social class...
French Academician Andre Siegfried, author, economist and world traveler, after 50 years of reading U.S. newspapers, paid them a Gallic compliment. The U.S. press, said he, "has reached maturity but without having lost its youth. Especially it has preserved its real genius, which is that of a reporter. It is interested in everything...
Major General Claire Lee Chennault, 54, genius of U.S. air power in China, quit his job last week. In Kunming he announced that he had resigned as commander of the Fourteenth U.S. Army Air Force. He said he planned to retire from the Army and return...
...Chennault, whose tactical genius had already set a mark for other air commanders to shoot at, was recalled to active duty with the U.S. Army, given command of the Fourteenth Air Force, with permission to continue his activities as an adviser to the Chinese Government...
...illusory - is shown. Readers may differ on the question of Fitzgerald's survival value, but they will respect Author Wescott's statement that Fitzgerald's life and fate mirrored the life and fate of a whole period of American life. "He was our darling, our genius, our fool. ... He lived and he wrote at last like a scapegoat, and now has departed like...