Word: nitwitted
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...These letters were rather distracting. My favorite correspondent was an anonymous young lady who saluted me as 'Dear Nitwit' and closed by saying 'So long, picklepuss, shed a tear for me as I re-enter these virginal walls...
...Being a nitwit Infantryman (all back and no brains) from the last fracas, I have been cudgeling my dome since seeing your March of Time, wondering if the jackknife positions are in preparation for war maneuvers or swimming...
...become master of the U. S. as he is master of Louisiana. His hero is Frederick the Great of whom he says: "He was the greatest who ever lived. 'You can't take Vienna, Your Majesty. The world won't stand for it,' his nitwit ambassadors said. 'The hell I can't,' said old Fred, 'my soldiers will take Vienna and my professors at Heidelberg will explain the reasons why!' Hell, I've got a university down in Louisiana that cost me $15,000,000, that can tell...
Harvard last week received another token of the esteem in which it is held by Cambridge, Mass. To curb the "foolish, rampaging, nitwit Harvard students who break out into a riot now and then," Councilman Charles H. Shea proposed in Council that the city buy six horses (at $200 each) for its police. Said he: "We need mounted police for the Harvard students. I don't know if they are Communists, Bolsheviks or nuts, but we should be ready to cope with them...
Cambridge isn't going to take any chances with the "foolish, rampaging, nitwit Harvard students who break out into a riot now and then." The City Council voted unanimously to add to its list of stalwarts, six of the finest horses that money can buy, and if that doesn't fix those naughty boys, then nothing ever will...