Word: idiotic
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...kind of tabloid journalism he himself did most to encourage. Editing Winchell for libel "developed in me a philosophical imperturbability which, otherwise, my nervous make-up might never have acquired." Said Arthur Brisbane of Winchell's jargon: "Shake speare described it. 'A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...
There was the instructive memory of the time Percy Sr. ran against Demagogue James K. Vardaman for the U. S. Senate. Vardaman, who looked "like a top-notch medicine man," stood for the poor white against the "nigger." "He was not a moral idiot of genius like Huey Long; he was merely an exhibitionist playing with fire." When Percy Sr. won, they tried to pin a bribery charge on him. It was quickly disproved, but the man who made the charge went on shouting the lie from every platform in Mississippi. He "was a pert little monster, glib and shameless...
...half months after her first visit, Dr. Klein discovered that in addition to suffering from a tumor, his patient was several months pregnant. A month later, Mrs. Stemmer gave birth to a premature (three months) baby boy, weighing a little over a pound. The child was a hopeless idiot, deaf and blind...
...years after the child was born, the Stemmers sued Dr. Klein for $165,000, later upped it to $400,000. The case came up in a New Jersey Circuit Court. It was because of Dr. Klein's treatments, Mrs. Stemmer claimed, that little Jacob is a pinheaded idiot who, at the age of 5½, weighs 22 lb., cannot even sit up. At the lurid trial, two medical experts and a psychologist testified that the X-ray treatments were responsible for the child's idiocy; nine other doctors claimed they were...
...suit was brought in the names of Mrs. Stemmer and her husband, and also of little Jacob. Last week a jury awarded $15,000 to the parents for the care of the idiot boy, $35,000 to the child "for loss of Its future earning powers." The Stemmers' lawyer allowed a press agent to take publicity pictures of the delighted couple and their grinning son Jacob. The agent then peddled them around to magazines...