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Word: saphead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should I find myself doomed after death to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind on this planet, to discover that . . . my home . . . my railway line with its bridges, trestles, tunnels . . . my locomotives and cars . . . should reveal themselves to me as in the possession of some blithering saphead who had no conception of where he is or with what surrounded." Last week, after six years of sidestepping sapheads, the executors of the estate had found a solution. The castle and grounds they sold to the State of Connecticut as a public park and bird sanctuary; the CN&GW they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Royalty | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

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