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...priceless boon, that final handshake." On his anniversary, he took inventory of his crusades. Mostly they were small-bore: by carefully contrived cracks against radio, Southern cooking, horse operas, hairdos and politicking veterans, he had snared 10,000 letters. They had called him a "fascist, warmonger, race baiter and moron. Added to draft dodger, horse hater, sadist and war criminal, it seems I am a very unsavory gent, indeed, and I sometimes wonder how I stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Belt-Level Stuff | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...some States-my own in particular -you can buy a license to drive a car for 25? at the corner drugstore. . . . A man or a woman or a child can . . . get behind the wheel. . . . If he is insane ... a nut or a moron does not make a particle of difference. . . . The States . . . take no steps to prevent you or me from being killed by some moron that has no more business at the wheel of a car than he has at the throttle of an engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Terrible Toll | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...love the kids, especially the worst of them-little Tommy who seems a perfect moron but has something in him that one longs to get out. My great days are those when Tommy suddenly comes to human life. The three Mathews children, whose home is run by a woman not their father's lawful wife, who has no time to care for children even when they are sick. They have ceased to be problems and are my best students now. And so many others-poor, underprivileged, mishandled creatures, and so worth careful attention. That is what makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Three-Ring Circus | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

Among the report's recommendations: "There is a special indication for sterilization in connection with physically attractive moron girls prior to discharge from residential school [for mental defectives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: SASKATCHEWAN: Sterilization Cry | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...SHERLOCK HOLMES," THE ADVENTURES OF SOLAR PONS - August Derleth-Mycroft & Moron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent Mysteries, Nov. 19, 1945 | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

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