Word: dunderhead
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...patch of gang turf called Chicago, and that the populace was all Tom Mixes, Bogarts and Harlows. Now the world knows better: it realizes that the U.S. is, in fact, a vast Ponderosa peopled by dashing doctors and defense counsels and hard-nosed Combatants, all of whom love a dunderhead named Lucy. At a time when there are 1,400 times as many television sets (173 million) as movie houses on earth, the TV series has replaced the film on the Great Image Conveyor Belt, and the U.S. TV packagers for some years now have ruled the air waves...
...husband's Cornish estate. She is assisted in her intrigue by one of those button-mouthed little men-servants whose lines, always the wittiest in the play, terminate in a dry "my lady." With the pirate, Dona forgets her inept domesticity in a mischievous piratical foray against her dunderhead neighbors, and in the 17th-Century equivalent of a long weekend at Atlantic City...
...that its 10-year-olds are endowed with adult minds and motives, a situation producing an unusual potency in the pranks the children commit, such as making a major catastrophe of a hotel Christmas tree and the party going on around it. The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (RKO). A decorative dunderhead (Jean Arthur) who writes detective stories has a habit of dragging her surgeon-husband (William Powell; into real-life murder mysteries. When they are divorced she tries to get him back by entangling him in still another mystery, involving the murders of a jockey, a trainer and a crooked gambler...
...bull-necked Nazi General Hermann Wilhelm Göring. After grilling perspiring "Auwi," whom he scared half to death, General Göring kicked him out of the Nazi Party and out of the Storm Troops in which he had been a group commander with the stinging words: "Dummkopf! dunderhead! you are too stupid...
...year-100,000-saw Southern California's Mohler, Shaver, Pinckert and Musick, the best backfield on the Pacific Coast, smother Stanford at Los Angeles, 19 to o. With 4! min. left to play. Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa Quarterback Barry Wood, who had been playing dunderhead foot- ball all afternoon, threw a 40-yd. pass to a point 4 yd. from the Dartmouth goal line. Harvard's Hageman and Dartmouth's Morton both jumped for the ball. Hageman caught it. Wood kicked the goal that gave Harvard the game, 7 to 6. Hugh Rhea, Nebraska...