Word: moronism
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...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...
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...
...much a blessing, are iniquitous things. But they have their compensatory values. For instance, it is terrible to think how American Colleges would be depleted in numbers, were there no notes available. Furthermore, notes probably do help a not inconsiderable number forth into the world at something above the moron stage. It is therefore questionable whether notes ought to be done away with...
...deeming the mark cheaper than waste paper, attempted to import a few billion for conversion into pulp. But the Swiss government objected to the importation of foreign currency in bulk. Switzerland, of course, is a very small country. The world is all agog in expectation of what the mathematical moron will have to say. A dollar's worth of one-mark notes laid end to end ought easily to reach the moon, and a hundred dollars' worth might build a stairway to Paradise...
Leander swam the Hellespont because Hero was waiting on the other bank. Walker swam Lake Erie because moron marathons have fired the public fancy...