Word: moron
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...newspaper represents the quality of its readers. A great newspaper has often been known to scream in the headlines and grow purple in its editorials about an oil scandal, a Wall Street bomb, a colossal trust or other heinous calumnies. A fortnight ago, the New York Evening Bulletin, moron's caviar, indulged in journalistic bathos...
...level. "There is no such thing," says he, "as an inheritance of capacity, talent, temperament, mental constitution and characteristics. These things depend on training." It has always been thought that environment and training are important, but it has also been suspected that if a child's father was a moron and his mother an imbecile, the chances were strongly against his becoming a Plato, a Carlyle, or even a Dr. Frank Crane. It is reassuring to have Professor Watson's statement that every new-born babe starts life with an equal endowment of nothing...
...some one would offer a new prize, to be awarded to the first playwright who shall treat college life in a manner convincing to college men. Until some such incentive is offered, the theatrical university and its students will continue to fit the conception of the average American moron...
...POTTERS?A clever etching of the American family trying to work out of the moron class...
Heywood Broun: "Garden of Weeds is just terrible. Leon Gordon [author] has proceeded on the theory the moron the merrier. Quite the silliest play of the season...