Word: daft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great, rich lady, babbling endlessly about her memories. She could never keep her story straight, sometimes asserting that she had been married to President Lincoln and General Grant, or that the King of Italy was her foster father, or that she owned the Republic of Guatemala. But the daft old crone was not to be pitied, for she had lived greatly once and her true story was almost as fabulous as her imaginings...
...night he mustered up courage, went to a prostitute. She was so old and repulsive she frightened him. From under the bed he saw a child's foot protruding. He tried to escape but the woman held him. Harry had never been outside New York but was daft about Indians. Once he bought an Indian tepee, pitched it on an apartment roof where he and his little daughter spent long evenings talking about the Wild West. Then Harry was shanghaied to a freighter bound for Australia. For years he tramped the seas until the lightship claimed...
...simpered the news that her brother had disappeared. The stunt was to find him. Columbia Broadcasting's part lay in letting Burns & Allen wander in & out of other station programs. Amid prearranged confusion they burst in with a flood of stupid questions as to the whereabouts of the daft brother. Audiences loved it. Newspaper colyumists gave it columns of space. And last week Animal Hunter Frank Buck (Bring 'Em Back Alive) joined the nonsensical brother-hunt...
Meanwhile in San Francisco last week life was made miserable for Gracie Allen's real brother George who was neither missing, daft nor disreputable but simply a sober, honest clerk for Standard...
...Canby '36, Zechariah Chafee '34, A. T. Collier '34, L. P. Forster '33, E. A. Grant '32, R. I. Hardin 3L, J. D. Kernan '34, L. P. Marks 2L, H. W. Rubin '35, F. F. Silver '34, and R. S. Tangeman 1G; bases: G. H. Acheson '33, H. M. Daft '34, A. L. Gordon '34, H. E. Holm '35, C. V. MacCoy 5G, J. L. McDowell 4Dn., M. F. McKesson '34, J. H. Packard '34, T. B. Palmer 4G, W. S. Salant '33, R. E. Simon, Jr. '35, R. P. Stebbins '33, M. E. Vuilleumier '35, E. F. Wahlstrom...