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...discipline in our Army is absolutely necessary. I hope we all understand that. However, I have a son who is willing and will serve his country in any needed capacity, and when he does, I hope to God he does not serve under a nitwit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 4, 1941 | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...Hard-boiled Lieut. General Ben Lear is no nitwit and no showoff. But most of the many readers who wrote to TIME about The Memphis Incident thought his disciplinary action was too harsh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 4, 1941 | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...Richard Maibaum & Harry Clork; produced by George Abbott) is one of those athletic farces which have the delicacy of a subpoena and the subtlety of an alarm clock. A firm of young lawyers ready for the poorhouse ropes in a millionaire playboy overripe for the asylum. As the gilded nitwit is continuously prankish-he pours gin into milk bottles, steals peek-machines from penny arcades, drives his car up & down freight elevators, ties up girls on billiard tables-the firm of Lee, Russo & O'Rourke enjoys a continuous revenue, for a time. Then the screwball Tom (Eddie Nugent) makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Manhattan gallery of Dali-sponsor Julien Levy, an exhibition of "surrealistic" paintings by Grade Allen, adept professional dope, included nitwit daubs entitled: Man with Mike Fright Moons over Manicurist, Dogs Gather on Street Corner to Watch Man-Fight, Gravity Gets Body Scissors on Virtue as Night Falls Upside Down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...lightning radical, get enmeshed in the celluloid toils, and tells him where to go when he tries to sweep her off to his California paradise. She sees her best friend in the Footlight Club, the actress's refuge, escape from failure by way of poison. She sees a beautiful nitwit accept a film contract which she herself turns down, get acclaimed by the moviegoing public, and return to do a play on Broadway, sponsored by her Philistine boss. But David Kingsley a sensitive fellow who regrets having sold his soul to the latter potentate, persuades the man to discard...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

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