Word: crackbrainedness
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Not for Sale. The candidates have devoted most of their energies to name-calling. Shapp charges that Shafer is a "Goldwaterite" and "against everything that benefits the public." Shafer pictures Shapp as an "eccentric" whose proposals are either "crackbrained" or "crazy." Shapp claims that Shafer "already has pawned the governorship...
To show business, the barter idea sounded as crackbrained as opening a theatre at the bottom of a well. But farmers, housewives and hillbillies hitched up their wagons, armloaded themselves with victuals, and drove to town. All summer the actors ate hearty, and at summer's end the Barter...
When President Roosevelt announced that the canal would be started at once even Florida gaped with astonishment. Most of the State had always assumed that the canal was a crackbrained project which a few boosters promoted for profit or publicity. Those who knew anything about the surveys understood that all...
The farcical elements in Miss Crothers' play are better than the dramatic and comic. As Husbands Go has one excellent character, Lucile's crackbrained, ridiculously indiscreet friend (Catherine Doucet). When told that Mr. Lingard and the poet have become horribly drunk together, she says complacently: "Well, I know...
"We will have nothing to do with this crackbrained scheme . . . nebulous and ambiguous except for its clear implications that it would mean a tax and therefore higher prices on food and raw materials. ... It is regrettable that the most vocal member of the Opposition is so remarkably addicted to silence...