Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sweeper of streets? belly lurched out in a flabby bag, neck narrow and bowed to an ugly vertebrate knuckle, legs short and wobbly, feet flat and weak, head huge and misshapen, with drooling mouth, bleary, vacant eye, putty nose and unkempt thatch of hair. He is the "village idiot," the Tom o' Bedlam of an earlier day. His condition is answered for nowadays by Science as resulting from deficiency of the thyroid gland?a small vesicle in the neck that secretes a fluid essential to the vital development of nearly every part of the human organism. "Hands and feet...
...camp by the roadside by night and lighting the darkness with their campfires and the mournful, exotic cadences of their African songs. All this, as background to the career of one lovely lady who was at once a termagant and a belle, an alluring little vixen and an unconscionable idiot...
...When will you mob him?" he asked, interested. It was then that we put him down as an idiot...
Luckily it is possible to be businesslike even with an idiot and a liar, so we asked him his name...
...Great sluggish idiot with slobbered jaw". And "Eve" and "song Heard by St. Anthony" show him not deficient in imagination...