Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Severn was not quite spared the barbs of the sophisticates who patronized him, but was confided in, trusted, never helped to great success, never permitted to sink to disaster. Later, when the full quality of Keats's genius began to be known, Severn was recognized as a hero, an authority, and the possessor of Keats's most valuable manuscripts and recollections. One day Severn ran away with the reputedly illegitimate daughter of Lord Montgomerie, married her, lived happily ever after...
Tonight at 7:30 o'clock the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Society meets for the annual Spring Farewell Brawl. Extraordinary guests at this evening's clandestine meeting will include Julius Van Duerk, inventive genius responsible for the radically new nine-hole button guaranteed to stay on and frustrate all unemployed tailors. Music will be supplied by the Chicago Pianos, Inc., and Mr. John Walker, local toastmaster, has been invited to attend. Local Psychiatrist's Union 314 has been supplied with all further particulars...
...Brave, the Best. Between Pearl Harbor and D-day Major General Hawley had integrated into one tremendous organization the best the U.S. had to send of surgical and medical genius, technique, supplies. He had also supervised the building of huge hospitals which, some Army doctors say, are better than those at home...
...they look broken and blurred. Asked what sort of artist might have done the ration-stamp job, Keystone Photo-Engraving's J. S. Kellogg figured he must be what is known as a "label artist," an oldtime lithographer or a steel engraver. Mr. Kellogg also accorded the retiring genius a craftsman's accolade. The man who made his all-but-perfect copy 90 times over, said Mr. Kellogg, "is some...
...family and to his onetime publishing partner, Charles L. Webster.* They often show Twain at his worst-techy, cussed, filled with distrust of his fellows, a domineering egotist. They also often show him in full comical steam. In sum, they make the difficult man a more understandable genius...