Word: daffyness
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There is the same flock of smutty, poker-playing newshawks whose description by the original Hildy is more politely paraphrased by Hildegarde. "Journalists! ... A lot of lousy, daffy, buttinskis. . . . And for what? So a million hired girls and motormen's wives'll know what's going on...
Before last week's World Series many a baseball fan, particularly in Cincinnati, thought the Reds had a chance to beat the Yankees. For precedent they pointed to 1914. In that brave year the Boston Braves, depending almost entirely on two brilliant pitchers (just as the Reds did this...
No great asset is Shakespeare's hoary plot about twin sets of masters and slaves, one set married, the other not, one set from Ephesus, the other from Syracuse, who get hold of the wrong latchkeys, land in the wrong boudoirs, mix everybody up, finally mix up themselves. But...
One small but significant event in recent literary history has been the rediscovery of Bronson Alcott. Until two years ago this genial New England philosopher enjoyed an unread celebrity as the father of Louisa May Alcott, a friend of Emerson, one of the least coherent of the Transcendentalists, a slightly...
His Baconian studies were his greatest efforts in the field of daffy scholarship, but Atlantis: The Antediluvian World was his most sensational book. In Lost Atlantis James Bramwell has placed it in perspective against some 1,700 other works about the sunken continent, acknowledges that for many believers in the...