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Word: halfwit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could go on at some length, expanding on the virtues of TIME, but, believing that brevity is the soul of wit, I hesitate to lay myself open to charges of being a halfwit, therefore I hasten to the end, adding only that I am convalescing after an attack of encephalitic paralysis and TIME has materially aided in keeping my disposition bearable for my family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...souse did more to boost him into tardy fame than a dozen "Ravens" would have done and in so doing is but illustrating the fact that to the average fellow in his senses the capacities of a notorious tosspot are more entertaining than the carryings on of some halfwit blackbird escaped from a nearby bird fancier's shop...

Author: By Lucius BEEBE. G., | Title: LITERARY BLASPHEMIES. By Ernest Boyd. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1927. | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

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