Word: moronization
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...tens of thousands of men & women on farms, in kitchens, behind bargain and lunch counters, advertisements like the above are addressed day after day in the U. S. Last month The Author & Journalist, free lance writers' tradepaper, revealed what happens when, a moron answers the advertisement...
...Pittsburgh's daily newspapers carried the item, with great regret, that you were leaving the air. I am terribly disappointed. You know that radio has often been branded as a moron's source of entertainment, and in the majority of instances this would seem to be the case. Perhaps your withdrawal has been influenced by this thought. But, when sponsors such as you leave the air, the radio can then be truly damned for all its moronic worth...
...Whistling is an unmistakable sign of the moron. We might call it a part of his 'defense mechanism.' After he has set up his psychological barricade of sullenness, he sounds a note of war in his foolish whistling. He resolves not to care. He's right and the world wrong...
Senator Borah, quizzed at Chicago, growled: "Any man who says all whistlers are morons must be a moron himself. When I feel like whistling, I whistle. But I rarely feel like whistling...
...University students shrilled cadenzas outside Professor Shaw's office door. Letters denouncing his statement piled on his desk. Professor Shaw stifled a fit of chuckles and issued another statement: "Whistling from the throat is indicative of the intelligent person, while whistling with the lips is significant of the moron...