Word: moronities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This child of mine has been resolutely kept to the average intelligence of thirteen years . . . as though you and your sponsors believe the majority of listeners have only moron minds. Nay, the curse of his commercials has grown consistently more cursed, year by year...
...Schlumbohm's pride & joy is Chemex, a glass coffeemaker that looks like an angular hourglass. Dr. Schlumbohm, who drinks six cups of coffee a day, invented it because he was sick of bad coffee. Said he: "With this, even a moron can make good coffee...
...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...
...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...
...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...