Word: crackpot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCormick himself was damned as an "Anglophobic, isolationist crackpot," and the "greatest mind of the 14th century." Once he had the dubious honor of being named No. 1 in a U.S. "hall of fame" by Rabble-Rouser Gerald L. K. Smith. In Europe McCormick was almost as well known as Senator McCarthy. But midst the crossfire, the Colonel, erect (6 ft. 4 in., 200 lbs.) and proud, had a simple way of summarizing his rank and station: "I'm the publisher of the World's Greatest Newspaper...
...prepared I was to bring you the weight of the enormous force that is on the march . . . [but] you have definitely chosen a path that will lead you nowhere. You are taking the responsibility for the rupture. You will suffer the consequences." The letter was from a crackpot-but a crackpot with a following...
...marriage settlement. A shepherd from the slopes of Mt. Olympus turned his true love down cold when her father produced only $600 of a promised $800. Even in up-to-date Athens, where marriageable women far outnumber available men, the man who marries for love alone is considered a crackpot. "If I worked like Superman," complained the Athenian father of eight daughters recently, "I still couldn't get together enough money for their dowries...
...police forces, must take courses in law and psychology before earning their deputy's badge from the sheriff. Though they turn some cases (e.g., truancy and dope peddling) over to other authorities, their own quarry includes every one from the little boy who steals ice cream to the crackpot who might threaten to shoot the superintendent...
...wife moves front and center, grabbing the best lines. Some TV husbands do little more than feed gags to their wives (e.g., Burns to Allen), or end scenes by chuckling: "In spite of everything, darling, I love you very much." TV wives invariably know best, and their most crackpot ideas turn out better than their husband's commonsensical thoughts...