Word: dolts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lately, Author MacDonnell has gained notice for himself (and bank) by a blank-verse stand against isolation: "For twelve months past we have called Great Britain coward, traitor, dolt, because she did not jump into a war. We chalked her down a third-rate power, we pilloried appeasement, we covered her with lavish scorn-too old and dead to fight; and when at last she draws the sword, we turn our backs...
...with all its beguiling idiocies, America is still freely inquiring. (We get a questionnaire in every mail.) It is certain that in this country, more than in any other, the establishment of a court of wisdom would be a merry of admissions--who is a wise man, who a dolt. And we're fairly certain that the court wouldn't be many weeks old before it had a sponsor who would buy the broadcasting privilege, and we would have universal truth coming to us through the courtesy of Universal Baking Powder. The New Yorker...
...whether it was necessary to make English A-1 such an elementary course. Couldn't it accomplish its object of teaching men to write their mother tongue in a fairly accurate and facile manner amid more grown-up surroundings. After all, no Freshman is expected to be a complete dolt...
...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...