Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...misguided passion for Baclanova. When she learns that he is rich, she tries to poison him. Swift & certain is the revenge of the Freaks, their faces sullen masks as they move silently through the underbrush, but you are not told how they make of Baclanova the legless, drivelling idiot that you see in the end. The featured players. Leila Hyams and Wallace Ford, have unimportant roles...
...curses, shame on such an idiot band...
...meat was Glen Hazard's poison. First he ordered the Lanes off the company's property. Chad hung on. Then Clayton cut down the woods to make streets for the modernized town that was to follow his coal-dusting activities. Vesper, Chad's young brother, assisted by the town-idiot Kurd Foster, saved the Weather Tree, an oak that served as sundial for the whole countryside. Thereafter Clayton concentrated his attention on coal-bricks and Thelma...
...village of Zuchnow, was a harmless kind of fellow, poor like the rest of his neighbors, but with a good wife, two sons and a daughter. Everything went as well as could be expected for Mendel until his last child, Menuchim, was born?a cripple, practically an idiot. When his mother carried the child to the wonder-working Rabbi he said: "Pain will make him wise, ugliness good, bitterness mild, and sickness strong!" But Menuchim went on being a cripple, practically an idiot...
...wheatfields with Cossacks. Mendel and his wife, married too long, were sick of the sight of each other. One fine day a letter came from Shemariah: he was doing well in the U. S.. would soon send them money to join him. When the time came they left idiot Menuchim behind with friends. They found Shemariah was indeed doing well in the U. S., but Mendel and his wife never got acclimatized; their bowels yearned for Menuchim. They were about to send for him when the War broke out. When the U. S. went in, Shemariah enlisted; the news...