Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Socialist C.C.F. Leader Major James Coldwell emphatically agreed. Said he: "The genius of the British Commonwealth is its recognition of basic unity in diversity. Lord Halifax proposes that we abandon this historic principle. Such rigidity would destroy the Commonwealth...
...Congreve's Restoration romp, Love for Love, starring John Gielgud; and a superbly costumed An Ideal Husband by the epigrampa of them all, Oscar Wilde. Of An Ideal Husband (produced by Cinemactor Robert Donat), Critic Charles Edward Montague once said: "It proves how indolently a man of comic genius may write a comedy and yet not fail. . . . The tangle of the plot is not really disentangled at all; it is merely exorcised; miracles happen whenever Wilde cannot undo one of his knots." London also has a good Peter Pan and an even better Alice in Wonderland, with...
Defeat was a gangrenous infection which grew and spread, and with each hour became more dangerous. Not even Manstein, with all his genius for war, knew how to end the infection. All he could do now was to retreat with all speed, and hope that the pursuer would wear himself out in the steadily widening belt of devastated land...
Makers, Fixers. More than any other branch of the fighting forces the Seabees represent the genius of the industrial U.S. They are makers, fixers, improvisers, builders - blacksmiths, carpenters, crane operators, oilers, riggers, welders, plumbers; 59 building trades appear in their roster. Many ex-construction foremen are chief petty officers. Ex-civil, mechanical, and electrical engineers are commissioned officers. Average age of the Navy's jacks-of-all-trades is the middle...
Arpad is the last word in newspaper birds. He cavorts in the New York World-Telegram's weather stories, has become one of the big town's richest chuckles. A happy combination of oaf and genius, he is a blithe and silly little rooster, and the stories in which he appears have a cock eyed quality and an underlying mood of ennui. Samples...