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...Next week we play New Haven, that's a college town too, you know. They'll like the show there cause there's no stay stuff I nit, it's plenty rugged. As Jimmy adjusted has polo had and took his place on the stage for the first number he concluded. "The song that'll be most popular is my "I'm About To Become A Mother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schnozzle Cuts Gags from College Cut Ups; Stage Star Shows He Knows All | 10/16/1936 | See Source »

...Nit-Wit Shapiro realize that the Navy's ''Generals" are Admirals-in-the-making. If a table were built for their miniature war games, they would still get waistline exercise (which they relish) because the table would have to be as big as the linoleum floor on which they now play. The games are played to scale. Each 1-ft. square of linoleum represents one square mile of ocean, or at most ten square miles, according to the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 22, 1935 | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...voting a $4,000,000,000 slush-fund to this Administration to be spent in the future as so much of this money has been spent in the past. ... I deeply and sincerely regret that this body has degenerated into a supine, subservient, soporific, superfluous, supercilious, pusillanimous body of nit-wits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rickety Roller | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

...very rightly, too. These social attitudes are hard to build up and equally hard to hold; they are well worth emphatic support. But a closer examination of Governor Rolph, the man, would have elicited fewer surprised and pompous tut-tuts. Quite simply, the governor is an amiable nit-wit whose capacities as an administrator were taxed to the utmost when running a city government and are hopelessly inadequate to the complicated job of manipulating the machinery of a state. Though his term contains one bright gem which made him nationally known--the unconditional refusal of Tom Mooney's petition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 11/29/1933 | See Source »

...erratic friend of Charles Curtis of Kansas is William Allen White of Kansas. In his voluminous public writings, Mr. White once called Mr. Curtis "a nit-wit." But during the 1928 campaign he more or less retracted that and helped the Hoover-Curtis ticket by throwing mud at Alfred Emanuel Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Verbum Sap | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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