Word: dullards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guesses of his 603 scrutators. Most of them had gone far astray. Some 75% of the men and 81% of the women picked the owner of the "moron" face for a stupid oaf. Yet he had scored high in the Thorndike test. The pleasant-faced man was a dullard, had scored low in the test. He was adjudged acute by 70% of the men, 78% of the women...
...fictional parts and characters. "It needs no decoration from fiction, and I have told it as it happened . . . merely touching history with imagination and making the true characters live." Marie Antoinette was a lovely martyr in white dimity and ash-gold hair; Louis, her royal spouse, a wistful dullard who would have made an honest artisan. The worldly cardinal who passionately loved Antoinette nevertheless caused her miserable downfall because he was the dupe of a scheming court slut. This clever minx stole the necklace, implicated the queen in the scandal, but herself rode screaming and scratching to the Bastille...
Such teachers have been all too rare in our colleges. They are the possessors of wisdom and understanding, the men who have not forgotten that when they were young they looked upon a professor as a combination of a tyrant: a dullard and a purveyor of unwelcome information necessary for passing examinations. Hence they have made it a special practice it might almost be termed an art-of reaching out to shake the students out of their distrust and to substitute zest for lethargy. "Copey's" success has been reflected in the accomplishments of so many who passed under...
Allen W. Dulles is no dullard. He resigned from the U. S. diplomatic corps because he could not afford to be promoted to the post of Counselor of the Legation at Peking. His salary- was to be $8,000 a year. Neither is Mr. Dulles extravagant. He can easily live on his salary, but with his rise in rank and diplomatic importance he must entertain accord- ingly and put on the swank that is expected of a legate of the U. S. Said he in a letter to Secretary of State Kellogg: "The financial burden involved in the acceptance...
Briefly, the Brazilians so flagrantly defied the European powers and the Latin American nations, that the merest dullard asked: "With what power or powers is Brazil secretly in cahoots? With the Germans? With the French? With Italy, since Mussolini is notoriously anti-League...