Word: cretin
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When it comes to being obnoxious, he's overshadowed by everyone else in the cast. First of all, there's Sterling Holloway. Holloway looks, acts, and grovels like a local vice-president of the Cretin's Union, who models strait-jackets in his spare time. After him comes Felix Bressart, who is probably a nice fellow to his own friends, but then who wants to bother with those missing links? Bressart, lovable chap that he is, divides his time between kicking Holloway around and trying to marry his own daughter off to the local herring czar...
...perversion of the longest-running play in theatrical history, now in its eighth year. Jack Kirkland's stage play, adapted from Erskine Caldwell's novel, is a low-down drama of dirt, malnutrition and moral decay among Georgia backwoods farmers. It is full of rank, rutty sexuality, cretin humors, and a certain comedy of destruction...
...produced some good entertainment for its perspiring spring production. Although the only person who really stopped the show last night was Councilman Sullivan who kept the audience waiting for an hour with his performance the day's happenings anent the Daily Blast, metropolitan newspaper, and the inmates in the Cretin Sanatorium mix well...
When, after his shuddering seduction by his boss's wife, he is falsely accused of robbery, his family sends him to a private school in England. During his eight months there, he refuses to say a word-his comment on human trustworthiness. His only companion is a cretin who tries to swallow the silverware, drinks ink, knows only two sentences: "Don't worry" and "Right as rain." The night Ferdinand is leaving he is frenziedly seduced by the headmaster's wife, who then jumps in the harbor...
...children who read about the three funny little pigs are often those who grow up to be readers of G. A. Henty and Zane Grey." Only a cretin, she implied, could get literary satisfaction out of The Little Red Hen or the senseless animism of Peter Rabbit. She offered as an example of what would be more suitable, a story about a child named Peter who "ate 'n ate 'n ate spinach and loved and loved to drink his milk every day until he was strong enough to lift his little horse Trott Trott high over his head...