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Word: morons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baltimore last week Harry Allen Overstreet, head of the Philosophy Department at the College of the City of New York, iconoclastically told a Child Study Association meeting that Casabianca, the 13-year-old boy who stood on the burning deck whence all but he had fled, was a "moron without sense enough to respond to a new situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Skeptics | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...Wirth's. The gentleman looked at his watch, walked up to a man carrying a ladder and asked him where the theatre was. "I don't know: I don't know anything," he replied. Unfortunately there were no moving picture producers on Stuart Street or the unknown cherub-faced moron would have had a free trip to Hollywood, and an exetic office withing which he could fabricate better movies; the idea is not facetious. Any child would have been ingenious enough to have concocted a better movie than "The Mystery of the Wax Museum," or it would at least have...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/25/1933 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Drivel Racket | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The March of Time | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Whistling Morons | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

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