Word: featherbrained
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...methods are not subtle. Troy hurls epithets like "moron," "featherbrain" and "cream puff" at his targets. A recent Troy article on graft in the awarding of state building contracts reeks with outrage: "Spending a weekend reading the transcript from the Oklahoma County grand jury is like being trapped in a sewer for two days. Pustules of corruption sear your senses and you search in vain for some escape from the smothering putrefaction...
...heart is likely to shrink within him like a salted snail. They tell the stories of two overpowering women, different largely in the type of power they used. Harriet Hubbard Ayer carried culture between her dazzling teeth like a cutlass; Catherine Glynne Gladstone wielded a feather duster of a featherbrain. Both weapons were equally effective...
...other movie prisons, this one is run by a "good" warden (Agnes Moorehead), who is hamstrung by politicians, and a "bad" matron, who eats caramels and reads love stories while her charges suffer. Unable to keep her newborn baby, rebuffed by her mother (brilliantly played as a well-intentioned featherbrain by Phoebe Brand), refused a parole, and finally deprived of a foundling kitten she has adopted, Eleanor changes from a bewildered innocent into an embittered malcontent...
...most of his synthetic plot-which is still not quite enough. There are hints that the picture was intended as a burlesque of a familiar type of grade B melodrama. But with its air of sly sophistication it could also be taken as a subtler parody of standardized featherbrain farce. Every now & then, in unexpected bits of dialogue and situation, the film shows a fresh comic touch, but most of its effort is frittered away in indecision...
...theatricals, or in the theatricals of the sophomore societies. The title role, Papillionetta, is taken by Mr. C. A. de Gersdorf. The other parts are assigned as follows, King Cocalorum, G. C. Adams; Prince Prettypet, W. S. Barnes; Scaraboeus, J. A. Frye; Styx, D. P. Grisword; Bachtalque, G. Woodbury; Featherbrain, W. Baker; Ambassadors, Messrs. Cary, Cameron, Lincoln, and W. L. Allen; Queen Shebear, W. R. Dewey; Butterfly Queen, M. Hecksher; Gauzewing, T. T. Baldwin...
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