Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only readers who share the poet's indignation will sympathize with the deliberate lunatic ugliness of the poem on Van der Lubbe, the Dutch idiot executed by the Nazis for the Reichstag fire...
...royal "floozy," Miss Dietrich changes her moods and mannerisms almost as frequently as willowy-necked Sam Jaffe (cast as Grand Duke Peter, her idiot husband) changes his mind. Worst shot: Marlene Dietrich clattering up the palace steps on a white horse...
...Ciechanow police station and soon identified as Casimir Tocinski, 9. He was physically far more mature than his age. His mother, a halfwit, herds cows in summer, sleeps in the barns of friendly farmers during the winter. Her son was taken to Warsaw, where psychiatrists reported him "a complete idiot possessing nothing but animal instincts." In the back country farmers crossed themselves and knew that doctors could do nothing to help Casimir Tocinski...
Pacing up & down his hot little laboratory, black hair mussed, clothes wrinkled, eyes haggard, Dr. Cornish's hopes waxed & waned with the dog's vitality. "I am afraid," he said dejectedly toward the end of the twelfth day, "that the dog will be an idiot the rest of his days...
...Sunday School cards. Her implicit faith in their texts not only enables her, amid blubbering prayers, to heal her neighbors with hookworm, but also causes her beneficiaries to regard her as a witch. When not engaged in faith-healing, little Trigger throws stones at her acquaintances, abuses an idiot girl friend, steals a sick baby, falls in love successively with two construction engineers...