Word: dolts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trifling. Two of her lovely ladies, for example, tour France with a charming philanderer. They find him out in time to save their friendship and in a manner that saves their self-respect. Yet just before the climax, tragedy impends. In another story, the mother of a grown dolt launches him on a literary career by publishing her own work under his name. The son's character does not change, but the mother is much happier. Again: A dullish Mr. Mellish, given to heroine-worship, is taught his wife's heroism. An over-intense beauty kills two husbands...
...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 he made his knowledge...
...long time people have been trying to find a phrase that will define the personality of the Rev. John Roach Straton, Manhattan preacherman. "Fundamental-ist," "Denouncer," "Loud Baptist," "Saint," "Savior," "Hypocrite," "Dolt" have been variously tried by friends and enemies; none have seemed adequate. Last week the Rev. Mr. Straton made still more difficult the task of definers by as- suming "the headship of all the religious activities of the Supreme Kingdom...
...proved himself once more a master interpreter, able to grasp what Massenet had been temperamentally unable to?the irony, the humor, the pathos, of the first Don Quixote. On he came, splendidly, madly scattering largesse, singing to his love Dulcinea, who knew him only for a seedy dolt who roamed the countryside. Off he went, for her, to find her necklace stolen by a band of brigands; saw windmills in the clearing mist take shapes of giants making wild gestures with their great revolving arms, charged them in the name of his lady. Back he came with the necklace surrendered...
...genius for writing of the perplexing muddle known as Life to Average People. Still others, a critical few, whose censure affects the sales of Author Hutchinson's books about as much as it would discourage gum-chewing among U. S. salesladies, maintain that this author is a harmless dolt with a flair for illiterate sob-mongering...