Word: dimwittedness
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The American Review of Soviet Medicine, which reported Cherepanov's new lease on life, stated that there have been 51 such revivals among Red Army wounded. Twelve lived on out of danger and 39 died again from their severe organic injuries. The constant danger in such revivals: when a...
On the eve of his marriage, the mildly dimwitted Earl of Harpenden provides a potted U.S. lieutenant with a lodging for the night and a discarded ladylove. The lieutenant, however, mistakes the earl's fiancée (Anne Burr) for the fancy woman, and the two promptly fall in...
On the air, most of the comedy radiates from Jane, hopelessly dimwitted, who every time she opens her mouth puts her foot in the microphone. Her nitwitticisms are mostly malaprops: "He's a ragged individualist." . . . "Time wounds all heels." . . . "We're insufferable friends." . . . "Familiarity breeds attempt."
Because of the intense loyalty and faith the duped give the dupers, the Government has had a hard time running the fraud to earth. Two years ago at Sioux City, Iowa, Oscar Merrill Hartzell was convicted of using the mails to defraud Drakesters, was given ten years in Leavenworth. Hartzell...
"Theodore Roosevelt Jr. may yet become a governor," said a press despatch from Washington last week. The governorship meant was not that of New York, for which he has campaigned, nor of the Philippines, which he would like to get, but of Porto Rico. President Hoover, said reports, had asked...