Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scala, in Milan, Arturo Toscanini conducted a new opera by Ildebrando Pizzetti. Its story, taken from a mediaeval monk's chronicle, was that of "a young Parman of low birth, layman, idiot, and fool," one Gherardhino Segarello, whose reckless career of devotion and debauchery caused him to be put in jail, led out only to amuse guests when the Bishop of Parma gave a banquet. Pizzetti had chosen to make a martyr of this squalid clown, to endow his dishonorable poverty with Franciscan splendor...
Author Macaulay, brought up in Italy, by the sea, now lives and writes in London. Somewhat annoyed that her publishers required further publicity matter than her creditable list of novels (Potterism, Told By An Idiot, Orphan Island) she answered in regard to hobbies: "I don't keep rabbits or collect stamps in these days...
...with no fond fairy tales; he is not told that it really isn't so hard after all when you actually get into it. He is warned that he is selling his soul and body into a nine weeks' bondage; yet he comes out just the same, and is idiot enough to tell his roommates, at the rare times when he sees them, that he likes...
...burned to death in a fire at night, Theodosia Bell began to hear the wild horns of disaster blowing more closely through the quietness. Among the papers of her grandfather she found letters saying that her father was the father also of two Negro girls and Stiggins, an idiot boy who lived over a stable in the town. Theodosia, drawn by a grim curiosity, spends long hours talking to them. On the night that Lethy, one of her half-sisters, kills the lover who has deserted her, Theodosia, seeing the parallel with her own experience, goes to the house made...
Since many people do find Sir Harry Lauder's performances wholly or in part distasteful, what are his obnoxious points? Partial list: 1) His habit of performing character sketches between his songs in which the "character" is supposed to be, for example, an idiot boy who constantly wipes his nose with gusto on a homespun sleeve; 2) Sir Harry's habit of "forcing" new songs written by himself (and for sale in the lobby) on an audience which gives vocal and unmistakable signs that it wants chiefly his "old favorites"; 3) the extreme conceit and cocksureness with which Sir Harry...