Word: crackpot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist! Crackpot!" howled his political opponents, and Blandings was on the run. He ran the gamut of local political pitfalls before he was through, and landed in most of the social & economic ones too. At last, weary and harried but doing his best to look like Moses leading his people through the Wilderness, Blandings sold his dream house and brought his family back to a Manhattan apartment. "Just think," his wife sighed happily, "out "of a side bedroom window you can catch a little glimpse of Central Park...
...names were mentioned in the Senate, but Isbrandtsen Co. Inc.'s rough, tough President Hans Isbrandtsen did not deny that the ship in question was his Flying Cloud. Isbrandtsen didn't like the author of the letter, though. He called him a "crackpot." This week, however, Senator Magnuson was planning to investigate the sailor's charges...
Both were by Parisian sculptors already represented in the museum collection. Constantin Brancusi's Bird in Space had long been a polished bronze bone of contention for museumgoers. To some it looked like a crackpot design for a propeller blade; others swore they got the same upward lift from it as from Shelley's To a Skylark. The museum's new Brancusi was a six-foot slab of blue-grey marble, precariously balanced on its side and entitled Fish. It had neither head nor tail, and no one could be sure in which direction the fish...