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...mean village near Otranto, Italy, in the year 1603. His mother treated him "with great severity," and the child, sickly and confused, wandered about with dazed eyes and slack lips, understanding little, forgetting even to eat. The villagers called him Boccaperta, The Gaper, and considered him an idiot...
Halfway across the bridge we encountered my trusty sports editor, Joe Russin. "Hello, Joe Russin, trusty sports editor," I called. "Hello, you idiot," he called back. Russin was going to sit in the press...
...guard who stood out above the field this season was Endicott Peabody of Harvard who might be described in Kipling's "Fuzzy-wuzzy" phrase as an "inja-rubber idiot on the spree" or a big, fast-moving beggar who broke practically all the hostile squares...
...idiot, 'whispering like a drunken...
...Andrews evidently thinks he is being terribly clever in the manner of Ionesco when he makes the central character of his entertainment an idiot baby with two heads. When he has its distraught parents dance around it to the tune of "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush" played on a xylophone, however, he is thought of as "terribly clever" only by those warped individuals who think that perversion treated as a slap-stick comedy is meaty intellectual fare...