Word: brainlessness
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...dueling a pitiable farce and who would rather watch the love-antics of moorfowl at sunrise than slaughter them. In the white castles and proud manors, dames still drill their men-servants, still preserve an ancient ritual for meals and marriage, dancing and death. Yet there is a lady, brainless perhaps, whose love transcends pride and ancestors. Baronial Germany, decadent, is threatened with perception. Light shows through the chinks of crumbling castle walls...
...Science stagnates the individual," stated Lorenzen in the opening speech for the affirmative. "It impairs his initiative, his judgement. If we continue to stress the importance of science, man will no longer be man, but a psychological creation, clad in the skin of a hairless, limbless, brainless mollusk, with one abnormal ear glued continually to a telephone receiver attached to a storage 'think-tank...
...edges; and there is chronic fog in Flatland, through the obscurity of which the slant of lines is quite apparent and a Figure's angles and shape can be inferred without feeling all his sides'. The Flatland women are mere straight lines, like needles. Hence they are brainless; hence also dangerous, for they would puncture a male Figure upon collision. Quaint rules for women result. Society is ranked by the number and regularity of its members' sides, from formidable isosceles-triangle policemen with sharp apexes, through an equilaterally -triangular bourgeoisie and square professorial, to a polygonal aristocracy...
Thus, whether figures lie or not, they can be used to refute their own compilers. Education is of some help even to the brainless; and, of those of which "one is born every minute", there are a few who may profit by the wisdom of their teachers...
...through Oxford" only 657 have married. He concluded that the rest were hardhearted. The principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, denied the charge. Miss Underwood of the Women's Freedom League retaliated that there was little in marriage to attract highly educated women. And Dr. Joshish Oldfield agreed that brainless women make the best wives...