Word: savantes
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...have held a larger audience than Horatie Alger. Little boys have sat out behind the barn blowing large clouds of cornsilk smoke heavenwards as they perused the pages of "Bound to Rise" with the condescension of a savant. Mothers have crawled beneath the had to salvage a soiled and be-thumbed "Erie, or Little by Little." Fathers have confiscated whole libraries of Algerians from erring sons and have sat up half the night before a fire set for the avowed purpose of incinerating the fame of the great author. It was a simple creed he preached, this Harvard man. Live...
Onetime chairman of the Yale chapter of the A. A. U. P. is Professor Yandell Henderson, able physiologist, expert on noxious gases, no fearer of publicity. Born in Kentucky 58 years ago, graduated from Yale in 1895, he is a somewhat unkempt savant, fond of his pipe, his British tweeds, his tennis. Professor Henderson developed gas-masks used by U. S. troops in the World War, has done much research in automobile exhaust gases, in the biochemistry of respiration and the physiology of circulation. Year ago he wrote an article for the Yale Alumni Weekly in dispraise of "industrializing education...
...might have been put back on the wrong containers. This the accused nurse, Anna Schütze, denied. Professor Wilhelm Kolle, a witness, lost his patience, shouted: "These attacks against Dr. Calmette are abominable! It is impossible for me not to protest, because these accusations are brought against a savant of spotless reputation but who happens to be a Frenchman...
...lady in the cast (Charlotte Greenwood). According to the definitions by which Whoopee was fun, Palmy Days, though it contains jokes as old as the one about the capital of the U.S. being half what it used to be, would be funnier. Good shot: Cantor, disguised as a French savant, telling the fortune teller how to tell fortunes...
Croatian Patriot & Savant Milan Sufflay as he walked down a street in Zagreb, Jugoslavia. He died in 48 hours...