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Wines and beer will be on the menu to sharpen the aesthetic sense of even the dullest dullard, while Conductor Arthur Fielder will present a program of light music of popular as well as familiar airs. Tickets for tables at box office prices, range from $2.00 on the floor to $1.50 and $1.00 in the balcony. The music lover suffering from impecuniosity will be admitted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pops Concert to Feature an Auto Raffle Next Thursday | 5/8/1934 | See Source »

...purpose: "To know consistent differences between the brilliant man and the dullard, the scholar and the professional wrestler. . . . To know whether the brain can show what has to be born, and how much the brain we are born with can be expected to develop by use as well as suffer from misuse and disease. We must learn what we may dare to do in brain surgery. We must know more about changes under drugs and complexities of function; more about the nutritional support the brain depends upon to do its best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wanted: Dead Brains | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...Marx Brothers will find it marvellously funny. Admirers of Harpo Marx who, when he smiles, looks like a maniacal Charlie Chaplin, will be particularly pleased. He is still the funniest as well as the most versatile Marx. Young Zeppo is more active than usual but he seems a dullard in comparison to his funnier brothers. Zeppo (Herbert) Marx has always been embarrassed by the necessity for playing pallid roles which cause spectators to say that there are only three and one-half Marx brothers. When the Marx Brothers were playing Animal Crackers on the stage, Producer Sam H. Harris said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 19, 1931 | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

There are various good books for the seniors to browse in while they lie beneath the mid day sun. "More Boners" for instance will make the veriest dullard feel confident of graduation. "Years Of Grace," the new Pulitizer prize novel, is no worse than most Pulitzer awards. The Vagabond feels called upon to state, lest he arouse false hopes, that Grace unfortunately is not a proper noun, nor yet an improper girl. Quite a wag, the old fellow. And then there is the Saturday Evening Post. Long years ago the Vagabond had a nickle which, being a shiftless wastrel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/27/1931 | See Source »

...while the admission of "The Isis" is depressing, particularly so because it associates one of the finest educational institutions in England with two of the lowest cities of the world, it is at least enlightening. The reason for the peculiar pronunciation of Magdalene becomes self evident to the veriest dullard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BLESSED TRINITY | 5/14/1931 | See Source »

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