Word: charlatan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mahatma Eilshemius is by no means a charlatan. He has been called the American Rousseau. His childish, sentimental painting has been described as "the type of thing . . . which would result were the rank and file of Americans capable of expressing themselves on canvas." He has been praised by Henri Matisse and dozens of others. His most important pictures have been bought by the three most astute collections of modern U. S. paintings: Whitney Museum, Phillips Memorial Gallery (Washington), Mr. & Mrs. Chester Dale...
...believe that it was from Jules Verne's book that Sir Hubert got his undersea idea. Matter of fact it was from his exploring friend Vilhjalmur Stefansson that he derived the thought, while the two were on the Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-18. Were Sir Hubert a charlatan he might aver that the idea popped from an inherited cell of his brain. In 1642 appeared an English book Mathematical Magick in which a "submarine" was intelligently described, its operation suggested with fair sense, and the indication hinted that it could be. used in the "ice and cold-blocked north...
...head quarters were in a hotel room where he spent his time playing checkers with a policeman. He calls me loony. Did you ever see a shambling imbecile whose dis eased brain didn't defend its lunacy by snarling at others? To refer to him as a blubbering charlatan perhaps is charitable. Even a lunatic may not be charged with complete mental bankruptcy...
Comment. "Sinclair Lewis," said Stockholm's Nya Dagtigt Allehanda "is a noisy savage." "Lewis," declared Tidningen, "is sincere." "Lewis is no charlatan," said Poet Eric Axel Karlfeldt, secretary of the Swedish Academy...
...such as the notorious Rasputin. As doting Tsar Nicholas II fell under Rasputin's spell because he believed that the "Black Monk" and he alone could stop the bleeding of the Tsarevitch, so the Spanish Royal family were said by their enemies to be the dupes of a second charlatan. Spanish censorship veiled the facts...