Word: ignoramuses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some Europeans still believe that there are wild Indians in Indiana and buffaloes in Buffalo. Most Europeans still believe that Chicago's streets echo daily with gangster gunfire. No such ignoramus is Emile E. C. Mathis, French motor car tycoon who has visited the U. S. many times. Last week he and handsome Mme Mathis were in the U. S. again. One evening in Manhattan they made a gay night of it at swank restaurants and night clubs, winding up with scrambled eggs & coffee at famed Reuben's ("That's All") all-night restaurant on 58th Street...
Before the numbers bankers changed from Clearing House to race track figures and began to set rigid deadlines for play, newspaper offices were constantly annoyed by attempts to bribe printers, statisticians, copy boys. Even now an occasional ignoramus who thinks the Press knows everything in advance will approach a financial editor with promises of a split on the contemplated killing. One of the few successful numbers frauds occurred in the Curb's stock sales total. A person who looked like a regular Curb employe marched calmly in to the waiting newsmen, posted faked figures. The newsmen dashed...
...German Admiralty, and General Werner von Fritsch, Chief of the Reichswehr. In all 98 ranking officers appeared, to gether with the whole German Cabinet and every Nazi bigwig of note. Ambassadors of the Great Powers once again remained in Berlin, again fumed at "the impertinence of this ignoramus in inviting the corps diplomatique to a party caucus...
...eminent Dr. Bevan a telltale, fussbudget, or ignoramus? By last week U. S. Medicine had not decided. But there was much squawking...
Startled police found Hunter Gianerone scrambling over the fence to reach his kill. They arrested him, explained to him that not only had he killed an animal in sanctuary, but that the animal was an elk, everywhere protected in New York. Ignoramus Gianerone said he had thought it was a deer. Then he tried to deny having shot it. He was fined $102.50, his comrades $52.50 each...