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Word: morones (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...

Author: By C. Dub., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/12/1924 | See Source »

...POTTERS?A clever etching of the American family trying to work out of the moron class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 26, 1924 | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: A New Play | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

...news value of a murder trial is undoubtedly great, but like all great things it can be so overdone as to assume the proportions of sheer imbecility. There is a moron class in every country to which the gruesome and exaggerated details of a murder case provide series of irresistible thrills, calculated to make little gum-chewers swallow their gum in a paroxysm of wide-eyed horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Morons' Delight | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

Under the guise of Juryman Seven Fannie Hurst has pronounced the verdict that "the mental stature of a very large part of the public is that of a moron and more startling still that "the public great overgrown baby--is--clamoring for its bananas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FICK'E FAVOR | 3/18/1924 | See Source »

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