Word: idiots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near Elsinore, Denmark, stands austere, venerable Kronberg Castle. It was here that mournful Danish Prince Hamlet lived his strange interlude of sorrow, yearned for the sad Ophelia. It was here they imprisoned Caroline Matilda, idiot King Christian VII's "Queen of Tears." As Elsinore grows, imports new customs, machinery, the castle remains apart. About its solid gothic structure there is an air of infinite age and sorrow...
...Author. Thin as a rail, Frank Thiess, when high-schooling, tried to look like Abraham Lincoln, his hero. Result: teachers dubbed him idiot. Becoming a famed author, "I loved as passionately as Romeo, hated as intensely as Othello . . . publishers ran after me like hungry chickens. . . . My countrymen disliked my attitude [when] I boxed in public, had photographs with few clothes on in different magazines. ... All my traits were labelled 'American...
Another old story. Haircut, proves Lardner brilliant in technique. The village barber, shearing a newcomer, drawls bits of village gossip that slowly arrange themselves into a small drama of love, jealousy, and murder done by an impressionable idiot...
...statutes . . . that have the form of law have also by reason of that very fact the full force and authority of law, then one can only sigh and repeat softly the immortal words of Mr. Bumble:* 'If the law supposes that, the law is a ass, a idiot . . . and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience...
Soon one of the parents, Vladimir Orlovsky, an aviator, went home and destroyed his three-year-old idiot son. With lightning swiftness a Soviet court found him "technically guilty of murder," sentenced Aviator Orlovsky to six months in jail, then suspended the sentence, allowing him to remain free...