Word: crackpot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freely mentioned as the inspiration for the crackpot playboy is four-times married, asbestos-protected Tommy Manville. After witnessing the opening performance of See My Lawyer, Manville went on to a nightclub. There, reported spry Columnist Leonard Lyons, Manville encountered Actor Nugent, and putting his arms around Nugent's shoulders, murmured: "Thank you so much for not having made me out a ridiculous character...
...Brain Truster Raymond Moley in the last of a series of Saturday Evening Post articles ("Five Years of Roosevelt-and After") last week related that in 1933, just before his inauguration, Franklin Roosevelt horrified his advisers by receiving two crackpot money theorists at Warm Springs, Ga. The President-elect huddled with them for two hours, had a grand time comparing heresies. "The hero of this adventure would be no stranger to the Roosevelt of today. There is the same physical courage, the same friendliness, the same susceptibility to the new and untried," reflected Mr. Moley...
...Federal pensions of $50-60 per month, financed by sales taxes to produce $4-6,000,000,000 piled on top of all other U. S. taxes. Chairman Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee delivered the official excoriation, using the following adjectives: unequal, unjust, unsound, fanatical, intolerable, inequitable, cockeyed, crackpot. Dr. Townsend's solace: three years ago the House had him sentenced for contempt (Franklin Roosevelt pardoned him) ; now his planacea put members on a piping political pan. Bob Doughton & Co. hastened next day to vote, in Committee, to recommend raising from $15 to $20 the maximum monthly handout...
...This H. S. U. committee organized the basketball team which showed the H. A. A. that dormitory men were interested in athletics, and it was their persistence that finally obtained the program. I fear that the prevailing belief in Harvard that the H. S. U. is only a crackpot organization is largely due to such slighting of its efforts to make Harvard a better place for Harvard men. William B. Schallck '41, Chairman, Yard Questions Committee...
...office in Boston, installed on his desk a carved black bull a foot high (he says it symbolizes his bullishness on U. S. youth) and began to distribute his brother's largesse. To his office, whose doors are always open, came many thousands of requests for money, some crackpot, some worthy...