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...From the noun cretin, meaning idiot or village fool. A cretin is a creature of nightmare, humanity's most loathsome being. The word, even in adjectival form, is seldom used jocularly by people of discrimination, since one is seldom called upon to refer with jocularity to the most abject embodiment of mankind on earth...
...opening speech of his campaign at Idaho Falls was typical of his attitude-prepared to give everyone (devil, fool or solon) his due, and to take his constitutents' votes-for Borah...
...slightest way connected with the stage. Both very nearly approach the ridiculous. When the drama has reached a point in its development where its legimacy as a means of artistic expression has been universally recognized, for some hundreds of years, he can be no better than a fool who denies the same legitimacy to a study of the mechanical details by which such expression is achieved...
...waterline with bullion, falls victim to the pirates off Hispaniola. From its deck, Master Ormerod carries the fair maid Moira to the Royal James. Then trouble begins. Half of the treasure is buried on -the sandy dot of land in the Caribbees, dangerous to shippingo the worst blasphemer : "A fool agreement, if you broach it now ! A of a piece of idiocy !" Flint buries the treasure sland. As a piece of literature, it falls short of Stevenson's, art. But the tale never lags ; it is bloody enough for the best of us. The Author. A. D. Howden Smith...
...WIFE-Two husbands of a flighty wife learning the rueful answer to the age-old question: "Who's boss around here?" THE POTTERS-An American genre study of amusing quality, with oil as the villain. CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Walter Hampden superbly proving that there's no fool like a gallant French fool. FATA MORGANA - An atmospheric, sporty Hungarian comedy in which a matron gives a youth a lesson in love -complete in one night. THE GOOSE HANGS HIGH - The younger generation gets its back up and engagingly passes the lie to much current literature...