Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little tired himself with the exultant paradoxes of logic and the exuberant paradoxes of life, Chesterton fell asleep once & for all in 1936. He was 62. Said his friendly enemy, Bernard Shaw: "A man of colossal genius...
...comedy, satire and characterization which, judging by this book (her third), might as well have belonged to somebody else. At her best, 34-year-old Miss Welty runs a photofinish with the finest prose artists of her time and displays a delicateness of sensibility which borders at once on genius and indecency. Yet her finest writing is nearly always marred by such Celtic locutions as "a sure man, very sure and tender"; and the sensibility is seldom grounded in anything remotely sensible...
Westbrook Pegler, literary genius of the toilet-paper press, objects to his picture's appearing in TIME...
...thereby helped to prop it up. Financier Otto Kahn had said: "Mussolini is far too wise and right-minded to lead his people into hazardous foreign adventures." Pedagogue Nicholas Murray Butler had noted "the stupendous improvement which Fascism has brought." Cardinal O'Connell had observed: "Mussolini is a genius." Former U.S. Ambassador to Rome Richard Washburn Child had edited the Duce's My Autobiography. Later, Industrialist My ron Taylor had admired "the successes of Premier Mussolini in disciplining the nation." In 1938 Winston Churchill observed: "Had there been no war, . . . Mussolini would still have been great...
Gypsy Rose Lee's new play, The Naked Genius, got a Hollywood offer of some $350,000 before its Boston opening this week...