Word: ignoramuses
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...worry any longer because only one of them was still a celebrity. And once a mutual friend was telling a Zurich innkeeper about Lennie. The innkeeper had never heard of "one of America's most important journalists?" Point of the anecdote: the fellow was obviously an ignoramus; he had never heard of Winchell, either...
...unfinished Cathedral more than 20 years. One of a tailor's ten children, he grew up in the British cathedral town of Exeter, entered a Gothic studio as an apprentice ornament-carver when he was 14. Says Sculptor Angel: "I never went to school; I'm an ignoramus...
...book, "On Understanding Science" is admirably concise and clear, and even a complete scientific ignoramus can come very close to understanding all the technical material it contains. This simplicity is the outstanding literary value of "On Understanding Science." Combined with the book's provocative argument, it makes the initial combination of Conant the educator with Conant the scientist a work of considerably wider popular interest than the majority...
Senator Taft had called Columnist Lippmann a virtual ignoramus for daring to suggest that the great U.S. Senatorial tradition is to permit a President to select his own Cabinet, and that Cabinet choices which have been turned down were merely the exceptions which proved the rule. Now Columnist Lippmann hit back...
Meticulously well-mannered in private life, William Bendix is probably the world's highest-paid professional ignoramus. As such he now rates star billing at his studio and makes more money than the President of the U.S. He owes his present prosperity an part to his failure as a grocer...