Word: doltish
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...Church has succeeded in the elimination of the Communists and hence have no desire to support either Dollfuss or the Nazis, both of whom they agree with. The clerics have waged a long and bitter fight against the steady rise of Marxism, with especial success among the doltish peasantry. As was pointed out by me last week, the Marxian socialist party, long Austria's most powerful party, is now practically dead. The man who did this was Engelbert Dollfuss, the party who made him was the Christian Socialist Party. This was publicly symbolized in the great "Catholic Day" held last...
...Hitler's "All Fools" German Regime, that the CRIMSON, with characteristic puerility attempted to disparage the recent protest meeting in the Scottsboro and Mooney cases by such a distortion of the events of the meeting, that, unless one read the article closely, one would gather from the biased and doltish headlines "Arguments Break Out at Meeting of Liberals," that the main event of the meeting was the occurrence of friction within the club. This is simply not the truth, but a petty, inexcusable distortion of the facts which gives the impartial reader the impression that some member of the CRIMSON...
Into Secretary Wallace's hands the farm bill puts a three-pronged pitchfork with instructions to try to toss farm prices high up on to the wagon of better days. No doltish hired man, the Secretary is expected to start his price-pitching slowly and easily, watching his aim, studying his effects, conserving his power. Farmers who expect to see a sharp overnight rise in commodity values are ill-informed...
...work as a solicitor for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. five years ago, Haley Fiske Jr. met some glum life insurance solicitors. His father, Haley Fiske Sr., was president of the company. Some salesmen sneered: smart son, going to work for rich father; others sneered: smart father, providing for doltish son. Son Fiske, no dolt, proved himself no selling genius his first year as an insurance solicitor. His chief business experience, previously, had been in the export field. But he had listened to his father discourse on life insurance. He understood its economics and during his second year with Metropolitan...
...doings of an unheard-of Princeton back named Prendergast, who-sent into the game in the last five minutes-carried the ball ten times (almost in succession), and gained 89 yards. But such statements could only be evasions. The salient feature of the Harvard-Princeton game was the doltish performance of the Harvard eleven. Score: Princeton 36, Harvard...