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...phony nylon deal. Sidney had been ungentlemanly enough to say that he had blown most of the swag on Rosemary, and Rosemary was afraid this was leading to a ghastly, ghastly misunderstanding. She considered Levy a "creep," she cried in tones of outraged virtue, and also a "congenital idiot." Her relations with him, she added firmly, had been only platonic. Then Rosemary poured out the classic story of the showgirl and the predatory stage-door Johnny...
Women & children were shipped to Siberia's labor camps merely because their husbands and fathers had been sentenced. Like thousands of her fellow countrymen, one idiot girl was there because she had wandered beyond the limits of her home town without official permission. Most of the political prisoners were less enlightened about their offenses than the idiot girl. Five laconic charges accounted for all of them: "counterrevolutionary agitation," "counterrevolutionary organization," "preparation for armed insurrection," "preparation for terrorism," and "espionage." One Russian girl was there because she had suggested taking Stalin's picture down from the wall...
...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...