Word: daftness
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...very comprehensible poem, all of which may be due to the "New Yorker" influence. William Abrahams lacks it. His "Laughing Sonatinc" has a superb feel for rhythm, and I really like it without trying to pin it down to actual meaning. But how can one reconcile "The daft witch tittered a tattered prophecy" with a poem about Marguerite Lewis? I don't know her, but certainly should like to now. I. A. Richards has a career cut out for him at the Advocate House...
...woodland firebugs are not daft in the sense that their urban colleagues are. But they have almost nothing in the way of diversion. Southern stocks of game and fish are dwindling; hillbillies have no money for movies. So the men whittle, talk, sit-or start fires...
...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...
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...