Word: scatterers
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...light chaser "The Diplomats" is offered. Therein Clark and McCullough scatter their drollery managing to concoct several good lines and comic situations...
...will step briskly up the stair leading to the Chamber's Tribune, open his remarks with accustomed arrogance, and drive straight on to his conclusions with merciless, go-getting logic, always presenting his thesis as simply ban sens (common sense), and implying that his opponents must be visionary scatter-brains...
Panorama says, in its masthead, that it is "founded on a belief in the United States of America, its flag and its institutions." But, also, Panorama admits a desire to emulate The Illustrated London News and similar European publications. It was difficult to discover what class of scatter-brained women Panorama was intended primarily to interest. The first issue contained an able and informative article on Arthur Brisbane by John K. Winkler (biographer of Hearst). On the next page was a remarkable photograph of a giant tortoise. Fannie Brice told her "own story" and some Indians were observed worshipping...
...funeral dirge of their owners' vituperations. In the hilly North, where burial space was scarce, he drove sick cattle into the valley and blasted the mountainsides to fill in a natural grave. Warned that the curse had spread to wild deer, and assured that shooting a few would scatter the rest, he directed silencers to be used on the guns. Hunters deprived of their prey stormed in wrath, bereaved cattlemen still grumbled, but the disease was stamped...
...thoughts of each, tortuously analyzed, hark back to a frustration or forward with resignation and despair. Typical in the collection of stories are the drab blunderings of Amelia and her loutish husband ("The Runaways") who weary of their sterile farm, and burn the house for the insurance. Too scatter-brain scared to collect the money, they run away and finally trail along with a traveling carnival. Amelia, as ticket-collector in shabby velvet, attains a certain dreary happiness...