Word: witless
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...Witless of the Japanese proverb, "A grain of rice is riches to a starving man," one Nassib Makaram, leader of Syrian tribesmen, rolled in his palm a grain of white rice. He, Sheik Nassib Makaram, was famed from Damascus to Cairo, was called the calligrapher without peer. The letters he could form with his sharp-pointed stylus were illegible without glasses. He would, on this grain of white rice, write al-fatiha (the Opening), the first sura (chapter) of the Koran.* Too he would write the great speech of Abu Bekr, the first caliph. The words he would write would...
Please, sir, will the former gentleman kindly tell me who has been rumoring "witless criticism" that "They threw up their arms in despair and say we will build a chapel large enough to fill the yard, one which will leave no room for their vice, one which they will be forced to attend, one which will bring them under the guiding hand...
...rumored that witless criticism has been drifting about in regard to the proposed new chapel to be erected on the site of Appleton. Hypocrites, heathens, and one-cylinder Shaws are reported to be auctioning God for a gymnasium. Puny little babbling voices from this desert of sin are deploring the thought of tranquil worship in cool marble halls...
...witless criticism that has been drifting about college in regard to the proposed chapel, and which has culminated in your columns, seems to me not only pointless but in bad taste and verging on the sacrilegious. The lack of religious feeling in Harvard has reached such a point and is so well known that something must be done about it. What could be more fitting than a new chapel to stop the mouths of the hypocrites, beathens, and one-cylinder Shaws, who raise their puny, babbling voices demanding that God be sold for a gymnasium?" It will put Harvard...
...more ability than wit. His enemies succeeded in making it appear that the Cabinet had taken a momentous decision detrimental to the Reich without consulting the Reichstag. Flustered, Herr Luther attempted to evade collision by announcing that he would postpone the execution of the flag order until August. Then, witless, he offered the ridiculous explanation that several months' time would be needed to communicate the order to German consulates in different parts of the world...