Word: dunderheads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lest any dunderhead should fail to catch his drift, War Minister Voroshilov added that there is another bloated blood sausage which feels tight, namely Great Britain, and that "one need not be particularly Bolshevik to foresee that a solution lies in armed conflict between them...
...Marshal whether he knew that a local celebration of the Victory of the Marne had been held at Meaux, without allusion of any kind to Joseph Joffre. The celebrants, all too obviously, were of that school which has grown to consider "Papa" Joffre an amiable old dunderhead who squandered his men's blood as a housewife squanders dishwater. Someone-a little ashamed of himself-put the question...
...rigged up a blocky mannikin with swiveled arms and wired innards. Then he, others also, at the Level Club blew whistles of those assorted tones to which the dunderhead had been attuned. It pulled a rope that raised a flag that covered the painted face of George Washington; it raised a telephone receiver; it set a vacuum cleaner and electric fan going and the Masonic audience applauding...
...good," won Banker Pratt's ravishing daughter and died a noble death just in time to avert a happy ending. Chuckle production, still profuse, rests chiefly on: 1) The incongruous appearance of old family bywords ; 2) cretinous actions by the characters; 3) obtuse conversations as between one amiable dunderhead and another ; 4) childish horseplay with modern solemnities; 5) feints at coy indelicacy. If the reader at times identifies the author with his hero, that is because, in the funny business, the last, not the first, 100 years are the hardest. It is impossible to be a success at anything...