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...does TIME insist upon playing up the moron from Louisiana by draping his funny ace on the front page of the greatest news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1935 | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...Jean Parker's manner is that of a ten-year-old. Any girl of 18 who behaved so would be considered a low moron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1935 | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...Colgate's George Barton Cutten: Will it be rugged individualism or ragged collectivism? . . . We've taken better care of the idiot than we have of the genius. We have coddled the moron and starved the intelligent. Those with the divine spark we have neglected, while we've lavished money and training upon the pinheads. . . . Social legislation begs the unfit to become more unfit and cordially invites the fit to stop the struggle and vegetate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Openers | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 13, 1934 | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By F. H. W., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

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