Word: savants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people by censorship is ridiculous. The favorite pastime of the American people is dirty jokes. The American people are more preoccupied with sex and more frightened of it than any others. We're just an obscene people." How does Wylie himself react to the national pastime? Yawned the savant of scatology: "I haven't heard a new dirty joke since I was twelve...
...Savant. In Birmingham, Jessie Lowery was held for a grand jury on an illegal distilling charge despite his lawyer's plea: "Your Honor, he just has the inquiring spirit of a chemist, and he likes to put these ingredients together to see if whisky will come...
Excepting the first act performance of Robert Schwarz as Marco, and Robert Beatey's entire job as Chu Yin, court savant, the actors were very competent rather than inspired. Only these two gentlemen showed originality or real spark in their tasks, and Mr. Schwarz stumbled after the first...
...basic distrust of the peacetime Guard: Hannah is convinced that many Guard outfits are shot through with political officers, overaged officers, incompetents, and youths who joined up to avoid the draft. Challenged Walsh: "If they want war, let it begin here."* Then he really warmed up: "If the distinguished savant from Michigan State College, or anybody else for that matter, believes that the Army National Guard can be built up and maintained by assigning it to a home-guard role in the national-defense system, he has never been more mistaken in his life, and the entire National Guard, Army...
...group of six scholars who enlightened insurance executives as to what science could foresee in the coming years. A "test tube baby" from "test tube parents" was another savant's prediction...