Word: nincompoops
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...Deal defined: "The organization of the nincompoop majority whose object is to harass and exploit the producing minority...
...named Hartley Madison (Walter Pidgeon), whose bankroll is more impressive than his sophistication. To Carol's father's crony, Bookmaker Duke Bradley (Clark Gable) this is good news indeed. He takes it for granted that Carol's only possible object in becoming affianced to a rich nincompoop is to provide financial succor for her father and his friends. Actually Duke, who falls in love with Carol, is quite right but Carol's reasoning has been subconscious rather than calculating. Convincing her where her true interest lies is a lengthy process which entails horse races in Kentucky...
...equipped with the undistinguished material of the H. M. Harwood stage piece "Man in Possession". It gives them little to go on, and they get even by giving it little in return. It is all about a black sheep, lovable as all black sheep are, who pursues his nincompoop brother's fiancee, first as a pest, then as a sheriff's deputy, and then as a butler. Of course the respectable brother doesn't want her any more when he finds she's a pauperess, so the black sheep gets her and all is bliss...
...left an abusive diary lying around; he told guests they had obviously come just for the free meal; he took his vacations by himself; he called her extravagant and spent money on fishing tackle. Alfred Ross's countercharge: She had called him "a coward, pansy, bald-headed nincompoop, sap, thief, bum, crazy...
Aime will seem pretty much of a nincompoop to the unprejudiced. A youth of many talents (he gives promise, at different times, of succeeding as a sculptor, a medievalist, a writer), he is unable to assert himself long enough to give any of his abilities a chance. He dares not tell Marlise of his mistress. Andree, and their child, for he knows that the "iron"' mother would never permit him to marry anyone as poor as Andree. But Marlise. after Aime's death, recognizes all her own qualities in her illegitimate grandson, forthwith makes him her heir...