Word: genii
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...opportunity to remedy some of the ills of the past. Not only does the budding Freshman turn to the future, but his predecessor, next year's dropped Freshman, wrecked on the shoals of ignorance, tears his hair, and curses himself, his adviser, his instructors and various other assorted evil genii...
...industry as there is between a lion-tamer with a blacksnake whip, a revolver and a strong-backed chair standing in a cage with six jungle cats snapping and snarling on six star-spangled hassocks-that is their version of economic planning. . . . Yet that is the condition these economic genii want to restore. . . . These men have really nothing to support them but the width of their mouths and the volumetric capacity of their lung power. . . . The fact is that they do not know what they want and men in that condition ought not to speak...
They have called forth the genii and cannot bottle him again. In their blind efforts to have and to hold power, the dictators and the premiers of Europe and all whose interests they represent, have found a weapon ready-forged for their purposes, and one which they have wielded well. That weapon is the spirit of nationalism. With conviction born of psychological necessity these men have hallowed that sentiment with the bathos of a thousand speeches, a thousand parades. Pushed on by the pressure of those who would upset them, they have identified the welfare of the country with...
...spent three years on The Adventures of Prince Achmed. The story is tenuous. Achmed makes love, goes to war, combats a sorcerer in settings and among characters taken from the Arabian Nights. Aladdin is there, though now he has to light his lamp instead of rubbing it to summon genii. There are the Sultan, the Magic Horse, the fairy Peri-Banov, the Princess Dinarzade. Like contortionism and sword-swallowing, the picture is remarkable principally because its technique was difficult, but it is a nice fairy story. Good shots among the 300,000 scenes that had to be built with Chinese...
What shares will eventually be the leaders on the New York Mining Exchange is not yet known. In addition to Dix Butte, sales the first day were: 1,000 Genii at 50?, 2,000 Montana at 31?, 400 Moscow at 85?, 200 Newbec at 8?, 100 Park City at 36½?, 50 Silver King...