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...night wears on the pace grows slower, the curses quieter. The old man stumbles with exhaustion. "No, no, no," he whispers over and over again to himself, "It cannot be, it cannot be." And the idiot beside him mutters, "Yes, nuncle; yes, nuncle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The" Student Vagabond | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...attaching thereto a schedule of Death. If the brain and central nervous system are deprived of refreshing blood for eight to twelve minutes, it is useless to try revival, said Dr. Hyman, because, even if the individual's heart is restarted, he will be a hopelessly crippled idiot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death's Schedule | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...well, too, for the true Don Quixote actually lives in the tall, spare-frame of Feodor Chaliapin. Singing little, but acting much, he has recreated the lovable old idiot. Nothing could be more purposefully ridiculous than the skeleton-like Chaliapin, with his wild hair and corkscrew beard, crawling out of an attic window buttocks up to find himself facing his pursuers--in his nightshirt. Nor could anything be more pathetically humorous than the armor-clad knight as he revolves in a large circle slowly about the windmill, stuck fast in one of the sails. And so scene after vivid scene...

Author: By P. A. U., | Title: AT THE MAJESTIC | 2/15/1935 | See Source »

...have been called a raving Red, an insipid idiot, and an awful ass of late-many times- all because of my publicly avowed intention of voting for Upton Sinclair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 5, 1934 | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...King of Sardinia was, like all the Bourbons, a fool, the Portuguese Queen a Braganza and therefore by nature an idiot, The successor to Frederic of Prussia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pound Still Soaring | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

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