Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outbreak of fire. Torgler especially impressed the court and the world with the imbecility of charging either himself or his party of an act wholly inconsistent with the known principles and plans of the German Communists. The fourth defendant, van der Lubbe, is an obvious type of village idiot who was discharged from the Party in 1931 after a very brief stay, and who has in the trial volunteered absolutely no information of use to the prosecution, refusing to implicate anyone but himself in the arson...
...mixture of foods is tre- fah or terephah. Terephah literally means "an animal torn by wild beasts." It applies especially to the slaughter of animals, or shechitah. Shechitah. The shochet is the one who does the slaughtering. One may not be a shochet if he is a deaf-mute, idiot, minor, one who is intoxicated, an old man with trembling hands (he might press against the throat instead of having his knife go gently forwards & backwards), a non-Jew, or a Jew who spitefully transgresses the laws. The shochet is a man of Hebrew learning, well-versed in Talmud...
...myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100% American as 99% idiot. And they just adore...
...cootch dancer who is married to a weakling carnival porter (James Bell, who made the horrifying death walk in The Last Mile). Miss Turner, although possessing a heart of gold, continues a lurid past by surrendering consistently to the medicine show's strong men. One of these, an idiot, throws her husband down some stairs just as she is about to run away to Atlantic City with another...
...cloob." The Aicadre family moves to the nearby Abbey, where Madame Teterger, as caretaker of the Abbey, earns a miserly living, passes it grudgingly on to the rest. Dr. Aicadre accepts his invalidism with bitter fatalism; the only things that are insupportable are the teasings of Madame Teterger's idiot son, who hates him. and the starvation rations given to his pet dog Bobbee. One day he breaks out. poisons the dog. Some time later Laure bears him a second baby girl. When the child is found poisoned it is assumed that Aicadre is the murderer...