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...enough "guts'' could on one of these foggy nights plan his getaway, swim a short distance to a confederate in a boat and disappear under the blanket of fog, until he is caught again. Just because a man is a criminal does not signify he is a nitwit. They have just as much brains as the B.H.'s [Big Heads] and although they use them in a different way-i.e. against law and order- they are not leaving them rust whether in a penitentiary or loose in their mansions. . . . ALFRED G. ROGERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1933 | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...Hygiene. She found most of them still living in the neighborhood. All but two of the girls were married. Only five cases of illegitimacy and five cases of prostitution occurred during the 17 years. Three-fourths of the subnormals are supporting themselves. One became a Pro- hibition agent. One "nitwit," who can write only his name, progressed to an inspector's job because, "I was no good in school, but when I got married, I knew I'd got to work and I went right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Morons into Citizens | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...monk is Georges LeMaitre, Belgian priest, although he affects the conventional black suit of the learned U. S. Jesuit. No funster is he, although he chuckles continually. No nitwit is he, although he says of a steam engine device newly invented by his brother in Geneva: "It does something about the puff-puff-the exhaust-but I am not sure what it is." The Catholic University of Louvain educated him; the late Cardinal Mercier ordained him; M. I. T. taught him physics and English; Louvain created for him a chair of relativity. At 39 he deals with Nobel laureates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Visiting Eminence | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

Since you published my photograph (June 22) with the unkind legend "Give the nitwit oxygen'' I have been waiting for a chance at a comeback. Have a little oxygen yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1932 | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...morals-complete with characters, including: one Millionaire; one Earl's Daughter or Millionaire's Wife; their Son, an imbecile sample of Young England; their two Daughters, one beautiful of face, one a Major in the Salvation Army, who tries to convert her father; two Suitors, a noisy Nitwit and a Professor of Greek who becomes by the odd and engaging circumstances of the plot, heir presumptive to the Millionaire's munition works and who, by the odd and engaging developments of the thesis, is not thereby deprived of the affections of the second daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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