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Word: dolts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, one Marie Lenay, soubrette, was dancing with an awkward man. He stepped on her foot. She glared. Again he stumbled over her. She hissed a warning to him. Once more the dolt set his boot upon her slipper. Mile. Lenay drew a knife from her stocking, thrust it into his vitals. Over his prostrate form, while the gendarmes closed around her, she said: "Learn about dancing before you come to me again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 1, 1925 | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

...hell, sucking the sight with them, and the earth, like a small ball knitted by music out of cloud and fire, whirled voiceless through the gulf where sound and color merge. Amazed were the listeners, for surely those in the dark hall listened with their eyes. When an enthusiastic dolt began to clap, they hissed him down as if he had interrupted the first movement of a sonata. But at the concert's end they, too, clapped long for Inventor Wilfred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Clavilux | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...enthusiastic dolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jan. 5, 1925 | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...frank with him. I do not intend to be bound by examinations and tests. This whole scheme of sampling information is preposterous. A man's knowledge is his own property and it is outrageous to expect him to spill it out in blue books for the benefit of any dolt-headed instructor. And besides, I am not going to leave any data here to help these hirelings of the Boston bankers, as Upton Sinclair so well puts it, start another Boston police strike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/6/1923 | See Source »

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