Word: simpleton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amiable racial controversies in The Bride of Torozko are decorated by observations like the publican's: "Everyone should be a Jew for four weeks. As for me, two weeks would be enough." It contains its complement of minor characters: a simpleton, a schoolmaster. Klari's girlfriend. If it bad been transplanted, like Sidney Howard's The Late Christopher Bean, instead of merely translated, by Ruth Langner, its merits as a play might have been more apparent...
...standard cinema Menace threatening him. It is his overeagerness. optimism and weakness for showing off before Minnie that get him into trouble. When Minnie is in danger he rescues her. Toward her he smiles a vast lopsided smile that wavers now and then with embarrassment, returns soon to the simpleton grin. He turns everything to use. He wrestles off the edge of a cliff, wrestles on in midair. Suddenly he looks down in horror, races back across space to the cliff, resumes wrestling with complete concentration. He flees interminably before a lion which loses its teeth when it nips...
...Scholar, Simpleton & Inflation...
Colyumist Broun cried: "Oh, I must have got it from him! ... I couldn't remember." At White Plains, N. Y. James Edward ("Andy") Gump, 24, asked and was granted a court order changing his surname to Gale because, said he, the name "Gump" had a dictionary meaning of "simpleton," had been "widely advertised by cartoonists" as that of "a funny-faced comedian," and that by bearing it he had "gradually developed an inferiority complex." Next day "Andy" Gale's father appeared before the judge to ask the order be voided. He said his son's wife...