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...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 »

...statement that John Dewey's progressive education has led to an emphasis on creative thinking in our public schools is suffering from too great a desire to make his birthday happy. His ideas have led to the very opposite. The present American high-school student is an intellectual dolt who thinks that knowledge is gained through memorizing facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...forces her into an alliance with a worthless schoolteacher who is already married. Out of this comes an illegitimate child, who grows up and stages her own unhappy revolt against Spinster Rose. Her fate is her mother's: she is left with a child by a country dolt. This is proof, says one character, that "it is often more dangerous to break a convention than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Devoted Vengeance | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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