Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellas may wonder why I give you all these explanations," said the Sergeant. "I know you guys understand all this, but you can't be sure, so I gotta speak down to the lowest level." He leaned over confidentially. "Idiot level...
...Broadway theater, a fabulous invalid that lingers on & on, was about to get another shot in the arm. Last week Playwright-Biographer Robert (Idiot's Delight; Roosevelt and Hopkins) Sherwood announced that he had accepted the chairmanship of a new Council of the Living Theater. The plan is to launch "a nationwide campaign of education ... to arouse in more people a keener appreciation and zest for the whole theatrical experience as opposed to the frantic and transient interest in hit shows alone...
...Show-Me's. Taft later made himself clearer (see below) and added: "Only an idiot would be an isolationist today." The fact was, a few hard-shelled America-Only candidates had got elected, most notably Everett Dirksen of Illinois. But more than foreign aid was at issue in Dirksen's victory. And elsewhere, Republican and Democratic internationalists were back in new strength. Michigan's ailing Arthur Vandenberg expected to be back on the Senate floor in January. New Hampshire's Tobey, Vermont's George Aiken, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Wisconsin's Alexander...
...hazardous in the extreme. One of the oldest is the West Po'kchop Railroad, which runs almost perpendicularly up one side of Onnecessary Mountain and straight down the other. A stiffnecked industrialist named Stubborn J. Tolliver built this suicidal grade to satisfy a boyish dream of his son, Idiot J. Tolliver. To keep "his drooling boy happy, Tolliver still starts one train a week up the tracks. Except in those instances when Capp installs switchbacks in the line, each train falls back with a crash, killing all its passengers...
...Idiot's Delight. The triple-headed chauffeur (a creature with strains of Martian blood) who transported Li'l Abner from Earth to El Passionato in a flying saucer furnished Capp with a straight man for some fine Panglossian dialectic. After taking a certain amount of triple-headed needling, Li'l Abner cries: "Yo' claims us earth-folks is in th' Idiot Era. Wal-ef we is sech IDIOTS, HOW could we whomp up [pointing earthward] a factory like THET...