Word: morones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidency]. To my mind this is the most ungracious and outrageous statement that I have ever seen in print relating, as it does, to the First Lady of the land, and can only be excused by a medical examination showing that its author is a New Jersey clay-eating moron...
...Penner and a unidentified blonde with nice legs are, according to the bill boards, and added attraction. These incurable followers of Penner will not be daunted by his appearance in the cinema, but skeptics as to his merit will ponder whether to classify him as moron or an imbecile. Mr. Penner does not profit by his venture in Hollywood. All in the all the afternoon was pretty much of a loss, for it was not warm enough outside for the cooling system of the theatre to be appreciated...
What distinguishes Sons of the Desert from other Laurel & Hardy comedies is less its plot than the presence in the cast of Charley Chase, a lanky, glib comedian with a mouse-paw mustache and a moron's chuckle. Appearing at the Chicago convention as a Son of the Desert from Texas, Charley Chase greets Laurel & Hardy when they arrive from California by whacking them with a paddle. He invites them to his table and puts in a long distance call for his sister in Los Angeles. who turns out to be Hardy's wife. Stupid Charley Chase does...
...Menocal's onetime subordinate, Captain Juan Bias Hernandez, veteran of the abortive 1931 Menocal Revolution against Tyrant Machado. With his wide sombrero cocked jauntily, swaggering Captain Bias was fighting Government troops and recruiting fighters of his own in Camaguey province. Last week he captured several towns-one named Moron-and beat his way steadily toward Havana. Terrified President Grau alternately threatened Bushwhacker Bias and parleyed with his son who popped in & out of Havana too often for correspondents to keep track of him. Veteran Tom Pettey of the New York Herald Tribune cabled: "Eventually an army of bearded Cubans...
Locust Point itself had great influence in turning its morons into citizens. It is like a small town without rural provincialism. Factories have always provided work for those who wanted to work. Three or four generations of Germans, Poles, and Hungarians have tended to own their own homes. Economics and society have been stable. And the investigators credited one individual for the rise of many a Locust Point moron to good citizenship. This was Hannah Dorritee, a schoolteacher, now over 80 and retired to the Presbyterian Church Home at Towson outside Baltimore. She was "aggressively determined not to lose...