Word: idiotic
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...taking advantage of the form to blend richly poetical prose with a delicate sympathy for a child's fantasies. "Fools" is better than its abrupt title might lead one to expect. It is a realistic tale of a country flirt and her two admirers--one of them the village idiot. The climax is a really admirable touch of cynicism...
There are three short stories: an account of a prize-fight,--still Mars,--a story of a squalid seduction,--Venus following the camp-fires,--and a study of an Idiot, Boy who inadvertently slew a pet cricket. The first two are by Mr. T. Pulsifer. As for the prize-fight, in "The Champion," there is some vivid realism in the style that gives promise of an eventually competent reporter. The anther should study the great classic in this genre,--the account by Mr. John I., Sullivan of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, in, I think, The New York Journal...
...Idiot, Robert Steed Dunn...
...Idiot," S. Ivan Tonjoroff...
...series there have appeared recently several valuable articles on slang at the different colleges. After reading them no one can see much cause for surprise in the increasing number of people who incline to regard the college man as a consummate idiot. Some of the "slang" which is attributed to us we are able to recognize as our own, but there is much of it that sounds strangely foreign...