Word: daft
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems too clever a man to stick to them. The recent discoveries regarding the Russian school of novelists has set England to noting them very widely. I am very much taken up with them. Tolstoi is extraordinary; he is wonderful; but I think the old man has actually gone daft, for it is in credible that any one could hold such paradoxes of opinion. But his literary excellence is wonderfully artistic. 'Peace and War' I enjoy the best of those of his works that I have read...
...damp and disagreeable, sufficient excuse in itself for not singing. An item in yesterday morning's CRIMSON states that ".several parties of ladies and gentlemen waited in the yard in the rain for half an hour or more for the Glee Club to sing." They must have been "daft" if they expected us to pipe our tuneful bags under the protection of umbrellas. Seriously speaking, however, I do not think that under the circumstances the Glee Club committed any breach of faith in postponing the concert...
...fled from the house. I started after him but could not overtake him. I returned and stood for a moment looking at those hysterical girls, and then for about half an hour I practised for the Boylston prize. I talked about idiots, and dolts, and imbeciles, and called people daft and beetle-headed, and expressed my gratitude that I had not been created either a woman or a wooden goat, and - well, George dropped his handkerchief in his haste to see the outside of the gate, but he never came back after...