Word: moronities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wicker had promptly wired money for a plane ticket, created a Dorothy Lawlor Special for his bar trade. Leaving La Guardia Field, Mrs. Lawlor displayed a photograph of Mr. Wicker, commented: "Anyone who can't be happy with that guy is a moron." She added wistfully: "I do wish, though, that I had met Dan under different circumstances. I know instinctively that we have a lot in common...
Psychologists classify a moron as one grade above an imbecile, two above an idiot. He has a mental age of eight to twelve, an I.Q. between 50 and 70. How does he get along, or does he? Dr. Ruby Jo Reeves Kennedy, sociologist at the Connecticut College for Women, made a survey of 256 morons, decided that in these days of full employment, the moron is generally employable and doing surprisingly well for himself...
...typical male moron, Dr. Kennedy reported in Boston last week to the American Association on Mental Deficiency, is a semiskilled worker earning between $35 and $55 a week, compared with the U.S. average industrial wage of $51.50. He gets to work on time, gets along very well with people smarter than he is. Movies are his favorite entertainment, though he also listens to the radio regularly. He marries, at an average age of 21.9 years, a wife who went farther in school than he, and has an average of one child. Dr. Kennedy made no test of the child...
...female moron makes more money than the normal woman industrial worker, but doesn't save her money...
...Harriet struggled to decide whether to turn her beloved over to Scotland Yard, "auntie" and the "vet" (two husky Russians who ran the London branch of the "Apparatus") tried to decide what to do about Harriet. Agent Lightfoot was an invaluable spy, but he had up & married a little moron without party consent, and (they decided) she would have to be "eliminated." Obviously, Agent Lightfoot was the man best qualified to do the eliminating. Lightfoot protested, but he took Harriet duck-hunting and tried to blow her head off. When he failed, the Apparatus decided that bungling Agent Lightfoot must...