Word: invents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Figures. Burroughs was founded by an Auburn, N. Y. bank clerk, William Seward Burroughs, who got tired of adding up long columns of figures. In 1881, he went to St. Louis, and with $700 borrowed from a dry-goods merchant he tried to invent an adding machine...
Temporary Job. Soon he decided he could do a better job if he knew more about the human body. So for the next ten years, in his spare time, he studied medicine, finally took his degree. During these years Dr. Studer helped James Naismith invent basketball, hired a young mechanic named Henry Ford for $2 a night to teach a Y class in ironworking. The strain of work and school eventually buckled Dr. Studer's health, and he went to Arizona to practice medicine. The Detroit Y soon persuaded him to come back "temporarily" as general secretary...
...powerful, peasant hands work slowly and uncertainly. Says he: "Matisse knows where he's going, but I never know where I'll land." Completely unpretentious, he admits to being influenced by other artists: "But that's very good! You can't possibly invent painting all by yourself." Paintings that fail to pan out never discourage Pierre Bonnard. "I always work on paintings that miscarry," he says, "They pose exciting problems. It's good to fail...
...psychiatrists, with yeoman help from the boys in the pressroom, explained George to Chicago by saying that Iris creator, Bill, was a duo-personality-that Bill Heirens had made George up the way children invent playmates. By such a device, they said, Bill Heirens could remain an average son and student, date nice girls and go to church, and at the same time carry on a one-man crime wave to make even Chicago's hair rise. Chicago's hair rose, but the back of its neck tingled pleasantly...
...shows the verve and talent for pantomime that has, in later productions, been drowned in a flood of dialogue and cute piano-peeking. Margaret Dumont, accused by Groucho of looking like an old tenement, is the perfect foil through bedroom to parlor to bedroom. If S.J. Perelman did not invent the gags there was some compensation in money-maker Leo McCarey's direction...