Word: crackpot
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...called up old enemies of Lilienthal as witnesses. He bludgeoned him with gossip, crackpot letters, unsupported charges. He insisted on knowing the birthplace of Lilienthal's parents, aged 72 and 78. "It was in the vicinity of Pressburg, which is now a part of Czechoslovakia," said Lilienthal...
...also been credited with terrible public manners, being "a radical and a New Deal crackpot," allegedly buying poll-tax receipts with union funds (although he was acquitted in the courts), and turning the civic auditorium over to a bunch of Communists for a meeting. That last move brought on one of the worst riots in San Antonio's history...
Pascal was indignant. In his 16 years as a waiter at the Café de Flore, in Paris' bohemian Latin Quarter, Pascal had heard more crackpot talk about art, letters and life than a hundred ordinary men hear in a lifetime. For Pascal, most of it went in one ear and out the other. But he remembered that last year there was a haze of glory around the Café de Flore, when Existentialism was in its first febrile flower. Jean-Paul Sartre, the wall-eyed little founder of Existentialism, and his disciples jabbered nightly at the Flore. Admiring...
...posturing crackpot of the war crimes, Rudolf Hess. He brushed aside the headphones which would have brought him the German translation of Justice Lawrence's sentence in English: life imprisonment. Not by a flicker of an eyelash did fox-chinned Hess betray surprise at the clemency he had received. The mill ground...
Ezra Pound, Idaho-born expatriate poet, scholar and cantankerous crackpot, opponent of "the God-damned system that makes one war after another," arrived in Washington to be tried for treason (pro-Axis broadcasts from Italy). "Does anyone have the faintest idea what I actually said in Rome?" he asked. "Get over the idea that I betrayed anybody...