Word: morones
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...Harvard graduate is holding a position as caretaker of a small playground. He is most likely one of the following. (1) A drunkard or drug addict: (2) unusually fond of children: (3) unable to adjust to a position of responsibility: (4) a moron...
...course, contributed to make the Harvard man a drunkard--a position which requires judgment and no small capacity for uniting various raw materials. Harvard's sense of proportion and blance is amply illustrated by Professor Moss' assumption that the Harvard graduate who becomes a caretaker is probably a moron...
Events. Such was the scene. Two days before the trial, Lawyer William Jennings Bryan, chief of the prosecution, lumbered off a train from Florida. The populace, Bryan's to a moron, yowled a welcome. Going to the house he had rented, Bryan took off his coat, wandered the streets in his shirt sleeves, a panoramic smile of blessing upon his perspiring countenance, an impressive pith helmet covering the bald, pink dome of his head...
...rigid economic dogmatists of yesterday with fixed ideas on the distribution of wealth, labor unions and the revolution, but rather is it made up of the care-free, mentally and morally loose-jointed "flapper" whose twin passions are disrespect and personal nonesty and whose favorite word is "moron." It is all very gay and most earnestly flippant. Evans Clark. In The New York Times Magazine...
...within the jurisdiction of a "musical critic." It would seem that he draws his conclusion from the absurd caption "unskilled instrumentalists cannot rival professionals"--a statement the fallacy of which in connection with the Pierian Orchestra, made up of students, would at once be apparent to even an "adenoidial moron." Furthermore, were the Pierian Sodality in any such state of affairs, as Mr. Thomson describes, the Music Department of this University, under whose constant guidance and advice it acts, would have long since corrected these conditions...