Word: dolt
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...other has a task, and an activity, that cannot be so limited. H. L. M. will continue as our republic's most original and vital intellectual force; the Mercury is dead, but Mr. Mencken will survive, to use his last rugged phrase in the apt confounding of a dolt. POLLUX...
...candidate for the U. S. Presidency. When he jilted the winner of a beauty contest, who turned out to be "the illegitimate daughter of an illegitimate son of an illegitimate nephew of Napoleon," the bishop's pulse remained about normal. Then the French Ambassador, represented as a fidgety little dolt, approached President Wintergreen (William Gaxton...
While citizens wondered whether Justice Bailey was a discriminating jurist or a quibbling dolt, and whether U. S. Senators are efficient investigators or clumsy persecutors, Col. Stewart packed out homewards to Chicago, scot-free at last of the Oil Scandals unless the Senate gets the Bailey theory of quorums overridden in the U. S. Supreme Court...
Father d'Astier was this intelligent pragmatist, who never would have bothered to explain but for his exasperation that the stupid dolt was his son (illegitimate of course). He himself, suave, charming, had devoted his career to the greater need of the Church, and converted to Catholicism the rich and the powerful...
...audience how ridiculous was the plot. Half a dozen ballet dancers sat in the audience and mocked. Directors, stage managers and scene shifters scuttled about the stage, instructing the singers in their parts. Bastienne was played as a brusque queen, Bastien a flopping weakling, the old man a dolt...