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Word: dolts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doughty Val, Robert Wagner is false to Harold Foster's hero. The King Syndicate Viking prince is merely a good natured simpleton, not an active dolt. But if Wagner's poor acting makes Val's claim to the sword Excalibur and a seat at the Round table seem bogus, it also makes one question his right to annoy Miss Leigh and hide her from the camera. This comes of sending a squire to do a knight...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Prince Valiant | 4/20/1954 | See Source »

After 13 long years of this, Constant decides he has been a dolt and resolves to "risk all to win all." After 13 years, Cécile scarcely expects a change in tactics, and Constant knows it. Words lead to caresses, and the unsuspecting Cécile submits "as much from surprise as from rapture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Variable Constant | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...Century wars as avidly as some men chase fires, he became a colonel in the Portuguese army, a major general in the Polish army, even offered his military services to Catherine the Great, but she passed him up.* A venomous antimonarchist at home, he railed against that "reptile" and "dolt," George III. In 1773 he left England for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Traitor or Patriot? | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...pinned Bass with a reverse Nelson and body press at 4:32; 130--Smith (H) pinned Dolt with a double arm lock and body press at 4:47; 137--MacLean (B) decisioned Iben, 8-2; 147--Adams (H) decisioned Seaver, 5-3; 157--Michael (B) decisioned Anderson, 6-0; 167--Eastham (B) pinned Hastie with a Princeton arm bar at 4:08; 177--Rowe (B) decisioned Keith, 7-0; unlimited (B) decisioned Keith, 7-0; unlimited--Chernak (B) decisioned Heidtmann...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Downs 2 Mat Teams | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Alan Young decided when he was 14 that he would be an actor and that his specialty would be the role of the likable dolt-a type that show business calls a "schnook" (rhymes with took). Competing with such notable professional chumps as Dennis Day, Ozzie Nelson and Dagwood (Arthur Lake), Young was only a passable schnook in his 1944-47 radio show, a fair-to-medium specimen in his movie roles (Margie, Chicken Every Sunday, Mr. Belvedere Goes to College). But in his carefully planned opening TV show for Esso Standard Oil Co., aired in the East last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Perfect Schnook | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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