Word: morons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chambermaids at Yale's sister college, Smith, also threatened to strike last week over a story in Tatler, the campus funny magazine, about "Maids We Have Known And Loved"-including "one who was four feet wide ... a high-grade moron," another with "monstrous buck teeth." Smith's maids read, bridled, sent a committee to Warden Laura Woolsey Lord Scales demanding an immediate apology. The faculty suspended the Tatler and its editors wrote the maids a penitent letter. "We hope that [the maids] will accept our apologies and that they will be lenient with a sheer creation, unfortunate...
Gland Specialist John Brinkley, barely defeated (twice) for the Governorship of Kansas, once potent operator of a radio station over the Mexican border. Said William Allen White: "He will appeal to the hillbilly mind as it has never been lured before. . . . He is irresistible to the moron mind, and Texas has plenty of such!" Editor White's conclusion: Doc Brinkley...
...times. Jeeter has one decrepit jalopy that explodes as often as the trick clowns' car in the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus. And when his son Dude (William Tracy) goes hog-wild with a brand-new Ford, the effect is of violent slapstick rather than of a moron's disregard for mechanical decency. As Jeeter's daughter Ellie May, Actress Gene Tierney had herself systematically dirtied every day. But, typically enough of Hollywood, the events leading up to the grime did not include giving Ellie May the hare lip she has in the stage play. Typically...
...tired of hearing of death and planned murder is stupid, Lord! let me be d-d stupid. If a man who feels that he does not know how to help mankind out of the cesspool it is now in, and admits it, is a moron, I admit of no defense. Once I deplored the stupidity of the ivory-tower artists; there I made a mistake. Ivory towers may fall and the occupants may be crushed, but who would not choose to be crushed rather than to swelter in a stinking cesspool...
...President Hutchins were present, I am sure he would be convinced that he was listening to a psychopathic moron...