Word: dolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here, if indeed they are men at all, stopped letting the girls over at Radcliffe push them around. Every Saturday night 1100 Cliffies in search of respectable entertainment herd a similar number of Harvardian sheep into Boston. Most of them attend movies, but the simple fact that the poor dolt had to trek into Boston with his date seems to compensate for the vulgarity of mere flicking...
Lady Chatterly's lover, the chauffeur, is played by a handsome dolt who may be trying to be funny...
...story begins back in his turn-of-the-century childhood, when he is a dutiful teen-ager slaving away in his German-American father's "Lilliputian delicatessen." Father and mother have taught him that his three brothers and a sister are geniuses, but that he is a dolt. He takes it in good grace: "I sure wish I was an artist, a genius, thought Edward, instead of being dumb like I am." Dumb Ed has a dumb friend, a little pet hen that pecks "feverishly at his lips and cheeks" when he is not busy slicing salami...
Four Geniuses & a Dolt. The book begins in epilogue with grey-eyed, whey-faced Edward Enger lying gravely ill on a bed in his mansion after a coronary attack. His wife is beside the bed and beside herself: "Oh my darling, my life, my blood, my hope...
...disaster went as follows. The Elis' number one man, Ned Vare, easily defeated Brock Stoke 6 and 5. The Elis' number two man, Pete Nisselson, came from behind to win one up over Lou Klein. The Elis' number five man, Franz Dolt, routed Roger Fleischman 8 and 7. The Elis' number six man, Jim McCullough, routed Dave Beadie 8 and 6. And the Elis' number seven man, Bob Clark, downed Al Steinert...