Word: daftness
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...Lolly Parsons is a survival of Hollywood's great decade, the 1920s, and she still has (almost alone now) the untamed crudity, savage innocence, feral force and daft grandeur of that Medicean cinemera. Much of the malice, many of the rumors, and most of the moral solemnity which are directed against her tell less about Lolly Parsons than about the loss of heart, toughness and humor in the changing world around her. She is wielding a halberd among the gas-masked, and the lawyers of war do not approve...
Americans often wonder what the British see in Punch. But one steady Punch contributor who easily hurdles all transatlantic barriers of humor is shy, blond, 35-year-old Rowland Emett. Emett is a daft satiric cartoonist in the English tradition of Max Beerbohm and Edward Lear. He is the producer of a fine series of affectionate burlesques of the British wartime scene. He is also, first & foremost, a comic master of an internationally favorite theme-the railway...
...daft with yachts and paving blocks...
...week's end the Ballet Theatre was doing the biggest business in its recent history and losing money hand over fist. Of its $30,000-a-week budget, only a fraction was coming in at the box office. The rest was coming from the company's dance-daft angel, Lucia Chase, widow of Yonkers' carpet tycoon, Thomas Ewing Jr. Unlike most ballet patrons, Angel Chase is a professional ballerina, dances bit solo roles, solemnly draws a $75 weekly paycheck while regularly losing an estimated $150,000 a year making up the Ballet Theatre's deficit...
This is the story no less of Isabel Burton than of her spectacular husband, translator of the Arabian Nights. But she was at least a match for him. They were as daft, disarming a pair of eccentrics as boredom with Victorian England produced...