Word: morons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...institution will open up vast worlds to those of their number who have never read any of Conrad. Simply because one has chosen the oldest and not the least honorable of trades--that of voyaging--as one's life work is no indication that one is necessarily an intellectual moron. The most unlettered of common sailors can appreciate the beauty of "The Nigger of the Narcissus" far more than the most erudite of landlubbers, for he has lived the life that Conrad so masterfully described. And so--let the Conrad Memorial Library be duly honored; its function will...
...enjoy TIME. I read every word, including the illuminating footnotes. It takes about two hours and I am not a moron...
...sentimental raconteuse, but the historical reconstructions are superb-Playwright Sheridan scratching his wig for the fourth act of The School for Scandal; George III and Queen Charlotte reading their favorite divines under the lindens at Kew; and Perdita, fluffed in swan's-down, waiting for the flushed royal moron who brought her low; Perdita, at last a wanton, having her final fling in a tiffany petticoat at the mildly curious court of Marie Antoinette. Danger's Lover...
...artists remind one of Baalam and his ass. For once more may we say. "And the Lord opened the month of the ass." But no, we cannot lay as the door of the Almighty such a gross, barbarons, wanton picture capable of origin only in the brain of a moron. For if Lampy can find no other material but scorn of the Jewish students in the college and the aspirations and religious ideals of the Jewish race, then it is quite easy to understand the general attitude towards the publication. B. Wantman...
...third-grade of an elementary prison school, two men heralded by the press as master minds are for the first time becoming proficient in the three "R's". After this denouement, people may even believe that the radio burglar is not a sprite akin to static, but only a moron in need of a shave