Word: idiotic
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...Sunday School cards. Her implicit faith in their texts not only enables her, amid blubbering prayers, to heal her neighbors with hookworm, but also causes her beneficiaries to regard her as a witch. When not engaged in faith-healing, little Trigger throws stones at her acquaintances, abuses an idiot girl friend, steals a sick baby, falls in love successively with two construction engineers...
...decided him against a career in industrial chemistry. Back to Harvard he went for a Ph. D., a year of teaching. Then War came. War-hating son of war-hating parents, James Conant promptly marched to Washington to enlist in the ranks. A scientific friend called him a "blithering idiot," turned him over to the Chemical Warfare division in which he became a major at 25. He developed the process by which the A. E. F. was supplied with mustard-gas. Later, in "The Mousetrap," an old motor factory near Cleveland surrounded by barbed wire and mystery, he worked...
...last time the fiance who jilted her but with whom she has always been in love. A onetime ambassador now, a rich man of the world, he breaks another idol when he tells her why and how he left her. In 1925 her father finally dies, a driveling idiot. But up to the very end Sara will not admit to anyone but herself that her father was not a great man, a worthy statesman, a good husband, a beloved father. Before that she has ample proof that all is not well in her family. Her sister Charlotte runs off with...
...drawing, like that of all extremely productive artists, is highly irregular. The best is almost worthy of that of his model and hero, the late great Paul Gustave Doré. Among the better Hell drawings is one entitled "Clock Conscious." Two other Hell drawings of note: "The Idiot Giant War," an obscene, pinheaded, hog-faced beast with ostrich feathers in his rump, gulping fistfuls of men from a great bowl ; "Trying to End it All," a pale and flabby Hellion, who has just slashed ineffectively at his nude paunch with a dagger...
...great human personality. All her songs are written by her third husband, Billy Rose. In a pinafore she repeats her radio performance of "Snooks," the problem child of a George Washington descendant who tries to cure her of lying. Depraved, whining, fearful, she pushes out a great idiot face when she is cornered in a lie and baby-talks: "What did 'oo say?" When her mother finally admits to her father that before the strange child was born, Baron Munchausen had chased her across a field, Fanny pipes up: "I think he caught 'oo, mummy." As a Russian...