Word: idiotic
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...little haunt far from the clawing hands of civilization with its telephones, electric appliances, artificial amusements and artificial people. After nine stimulating months with the mountains, the trees, the rain and the chickens, "I would have swooned with anticipation at the prospect of a visit from a Mongolian idiot...
...firm, bril liant flesh of mindless womanhood." "This Was Suicide." He had committed, she saw, "the classic type of treachery which every educated person knows at once for the base and final act it is, for Sir Roger Casement committed it in the last war." Like a "poor young idiot" he joined the Nazis' fight against his homeland not when Germany was winning but when she was losing...
...familiar name to Pravda readers, usually characterized more fully by Zaslavsky as "idiot" or "newspaper gangster...
Land of Romance. As the transport drew near the land, G.I.s swarmed to the rail, eyes misty with Technicolor anticipation. "The sun shone with an idiot brightness, but it was raining"-and out of the miasma loomed "dejected palm trees, a few worn mud buildings, aged water buffaloes . . . and a cluster of sickly natives, including several girls with rings in their noses who would never get a screen test." The G.I.s, stared in speechless horror- until "a colored soldier won immortality ... by throwing back his head and crying, in a long, high wail, 'Iran! Land of romance...
Robert Emmet Sherwood, moose-tall (6 ft. 7 in.) playwright (Idiot's Delight, etc.), more recently a Government employe (OWI and ghost writing for Franklin Roosevelt), returned from a seven-weeks look at the Pacific war for the Navy to explain why he is going back to playwriting : "After five years or more in public service, I'd like to start making a little money...