Word: dullards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany at the time of the famed Reichstag fire trial in 1933, and the Nazis tried to make him a scapegoat, along with dullard Marinus Van der Lubbe and German Communist Ernst Torgler. But they found Dimitroff too hot to handle. The flimsy case against him collapsed. Once again Moscow intervened, conferred Russian citizenship on the Bulgarian and obtained his release, then sent a plane to whisk him to his new home. He was hailed as a hero. Lenin's widow and sister sent him flowers. "I am a soldier of the revolution," Dimitroff said, "and will fight where...
...m.p.h. since he got some big, new engines which could supply the horsepower for lighting a small city if necessary. His wingspread is 150 ft., 46 ft. longer than his cousins', the newer B-173, only 62 ft. shorter than that of his nephew, the lumbering, dullard Douglas B19. Grandpappy has clippings to show that, in 1939, he carried a pay load of 31,205 Ib. (total weight: 74,000 Ib.) to a height of 8,200 ft. This eclipsed the Russian record...
Nicolai Lenin, his good friend, described Molotov as "Russia's best filing clerk." The epithet was unfair. True, Molotov is colorless, pedantic, phenomenally hardworking. His mind likes order, method, efficiency, and all that passes through it is filed neatly in mental pigeonholes. But he is no dullard. A clear thinker, he keeps his feet on a solid foundation of history, philosophy and economics. Like most Soviet leaders, he quotes from Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Plekhanov-and Stalin-at the drop of a gavel...
...bouffe laid in the West Indies of a century ago, The Pirate tells how the young wife of a fat dullard feasts on stories of an amorous pirate named Estramudo. A mountebank comes by, warms to the lady, tries to win her favor by claiming to be Estramudo. (Actually, her own husband is.) These and a lot of other old-fashioned absurdities of plot are blown up with old-fashioned extravagances of diction. Now & then a flash of wit serves for punctuation...
...parts of London which almost made a poet of that restless German dullard, Karl Baedeker, last week fell under a blanket of wrath. Buildings which were standing two centuries before Berlin was even founded were cracked, gutted, undermined. Names of heroes and works of great memory were trampled...