The 157 occurrences of bonehead

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:adger: /aj'r/ [UCLA] vt. To make a bonehead move with consequences that could have been foreseen with a slight amount of mental effort.

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"Surely you were there that day in bonehead English when they distinguished between 'definition' and 'explanation.'

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from the middle name of an infamous {tenured graduate student}] To make a bonehead move with consequences that could have been foreseen with even slight mental effort.

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Us boneheads don't know any better--but Grant's EDUCATED."

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CONTENTS Prelude BOOK ONE SPRING I My Garret Julot the _Apache_ II _L'Escargot D'Or_ It Is Later Than You Think Noctambule III Insomnia Moon Song The Sewing-Girl IV Lucille On the Boulevard Facility V Golden Days The Joy of Little Things The Absinthe Drinkers BOOK TWO EARLY SUMMER I The Release The Wee Shop The Philistine and the Bohemian II The Bohemian Dreams A Domestic Tragedy The Pencil Seller III Fi-Fi in Bed Gods in the Gutter The Death of Marie Toro IV The Bohemian The Auction Sale The Joy of Being Poor V My Neighbors Room 4: The Painter Chap Room 6: The Little Workgirl Room 5: The Concert Singer Room 7: The Coco-Fiend BOOK THREE LATE SUMMER I The Philanderer The _Petit Vieux_ My Masterpiece My Book My Hour II A Song of Sixty-Five Teddy Bear The Outlaw The Walkers III Poor Peter The Wistful One If You Had a Friend The Contented Man The Spirit of the Unborn Babe IV Finistère Old David Smail The Wonderer Oh, It Is Good V I Have Some Friends The Quest The Comforter The Other One Catastrophe BOOK FOUR WINTER I Priscilla A Casualty The Blood-Red _Fourragère_ Jim II Kelly of the Legion The Three Tommies The Twa Jocks III His Boys The Booby-Trap Bonehead Bill IV A Lapse of Time and a Word of Explanation Michael The Wife Victory Stuff Was It You?

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Read this: Bonehead Bill I wonder 'oo and wot 'e was, That 'Un I got so slick.

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And in a nip I seemed to see: Aye, like a flash o' light, _My angel pal I knew to be The chap I plugged last night._ Now, I don't claim to understand-- They calls me Bonehead Bill; They shoves a rifle in me 'and, And show me 'ow to kill.

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Probably I've told one or two fairy stories in my time, when the occasion called for it--you know: sometimes you have to lay things on thick, to impress boneheads.

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He exploded, "Oh, spring it, spring it, you boneheads!

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"Us boneheads don't appreciate him, is all that ails us.

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"That's all right," rejoined Clarie Deane; "but that's the second act, you bonehead, see!

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"You're a bonehead," Bert sneered.

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"And some day, when it's too late, you an' all the other boneheads'll realize the fact.

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"You talk like an organizer," Bert sneered, "shovin' the bull con on the boneheads.

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"Why, you bonehead, you ain't got a country.

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You're a bonehead.

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The bonehead audience sits there and applauds the show as an educational act!"

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And, as Miss Merle Merryweather said: the bonehead audiences, tickled to death, applauded Duckworth's Trained Cats and Rats as an educational act!

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"Say, it's lucky we've got a bunch of boneheads like them to handle," Pink observed thankfully.

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It should have said "Bonehead!"

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Bonehead!

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A bonehead like Jerry would have been certain to have bungled the thing somehow.

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Ashe's brain was working rapidly as he made for the shoe cupboard, that little den of darkness and smells, where Billy, the knife-and-shoe boy, better known in the circle in which he moved as Young Bonehead, pursued his menial tasks.

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"James was a bonehead--I give you that.

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"Ain't he the complete bonehead?

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The country's been betrayed by a few blatherskites and boneheads that had the power to do it, and all we can do we've just got to stand it.

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Dese wop kids is all boneheads.

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also from the middle name of an infamous [362]tenured graduate student] To make a bonehead move with consequences that could have been foreseen with even slight mental effort.

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No, by God, you're such a bonehead I'll bet you're in the Secret Service!

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"Takes a coupla daredevils like him and me to pull that kind of a bonehead play."

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nothing restrains them, those boneheads!

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In short, your troubadour (not very troubadourish) has become a sad bonehead.

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"Bonehead!

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Why, you're the port captain of the Blue Star Navigation Company, you-you-you bonehead, and Skinner has to stand for you now whether he likes it or not.

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"What for, you bonehead?

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Bonehead!" rasped Cappy.

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I knew your heart was set on seeing our house flag floating from her mainstruck; so I--Well, I just thought I'd get her for you, to sort of square myself for those two bonehead plays I pulled earlier in the year."

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Of all the boneheads!

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I shouldn't act like a bonehead, sonny--honest.'

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Not for D. Bonehead Pickering, the amateur trailing arbutus!'

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In those days almost anyone who was not a perfect bonehead could set up as a Wise Man and get away with it.

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And to think I could be there right now if I wasn't a bonehead!"

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"A bonehead?"

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The superficial observer, who is apt to be a bonehead, would say that I ought to be singing psalms of joy.

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It's all as plain as day but you can't hammer an idea into the boneheads that run this town.

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You big, lumbering, brainless, heartless bonehead!

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Why didn't you say that right off, you bonehead?

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"Say," he growled at Jimmy, huddled miserably in the seat beside him, "you sure did play a bonehead trick this time.

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Oh , you bonehead--steal--you won't get arrested for it!

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--"Watch Hicks--he'll pull some bonehead play!"

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Like a thunder-storm gathering on the horizon, a dark expression came to good Butch's countenance, and when he had perused the lengthy telegram, he transfixed the startled and bewildered T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., with an angry glare: " Bonehead !" he raged, apparently controlling himself with a superhuman effort.

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In words of fire that burned themselves into his brain--something his colleagues denied he possessed--T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., saw the explanation of Skeet Wigglesworth's missing the train from Baltimore that A. M. Dazed, the sunny youth read the message on which over-charges must be paid: "Hicks--you bonehead!

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"Bonehead!

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Bonehead!" chorused the Gold and Green players, indignantly.

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Now--you'll pay dearly for your bonehead play."

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"First I made that bonehead play, giving Skeet an old time-table I had on hand, and not telling him to get one at the station.

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As little Skeet Wigglesworth and the five substitutes, who had returned that afternoon, had spread the story of Hicks' bonehead play, old Bannister had turned out to ridicule and jeer good-naturedly the sunny youth, but now they learned that Hicks had been forced by his own mistake into the Big Game, and had won it!

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But not satisfied with "Umh" only, I added that all the students in this school were boneheads.

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I believe there are many boneheads of extraordinary patience; but me for something else.

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How is it possible for so many boneheads to be in this world!

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Well, after three days' trying he finally managed to get simple--he just couldn't believe I meant it at first, and kept building on the whipped cream--and the thing cost eight dollars, but you can bet he had me, even then; the bonehead smarty had sweetened the cream and grated nutmeg into it.

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"Dat guy a bonehead," asserted Tony, as he scraped his board with vigor.

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"A vera beeg bonehead."

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The boozer gets out of the game as certainly as the bonehead.

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Oh, you bonehead!

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"Because the sheriff's a bonehead and because our marshal is solid ivory.

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Stranger, you ain't been long in Eldara or you wouldn't pull a bonehead like that."

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"Bonehead!" exclaimed Jimmie.

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I guess it'll come out all right in the end; but, believe me, we certainly pulled a bonehead play when we went on strike because of those four women."

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Bonehead!

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That's what he was--a bonehead!

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"I always was a bonehead," he told himself bitterly.

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I'm an awful bonehead sometimes."

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Sheffer--who knew what makes business men laugh--pinned his simple faith to three main subjects, convulsive of the diaphragmatic muscles, building up each series upon the inherent humor to be extracted from physical violence as represented in the perpetrations and punishments of Ruff and Reddy, marital infidelity as mirrored in the stratagems and errancies of an amorous ape with an aged and jealous spouse, and the sure-fire familiarity of aged minstrel jokes (mother-in-law, country constable, young married cookery, and the like) refurbished in pictorial serials through the agency of two uproarious and imbecilic vulgarians, Bonehead and Buttinsky.

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"I've seen life-size boneheads frequently," announced James solemnly, not smiling until Roger and Tom pelted him with bits of sod.

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They left Boston by stage and one evening in early April, traveling afoot, they saw the familiar boneheads around the pasture lands above Albany where the farmers had crowned their fence stakes with the skeleton heads of deer, moose, sheep and cattle in which birds had the habit of building their nests.

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And manifestly she did not like that, for her face flamed, and she snapped: "Stop it--you bonehead!

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Not in your lessons--for you were a bonehead--but for deportment you were the class!"

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And it was good business, too, for more than once when some precinct bonehead that pipe-dreamed he was a detective was pussy-catting some cold rat-hole, there was me vanbibbering in the white light at the swellest joints in little old New York!

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"But, you bonehead," Violet argued candidly, "he had to.

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"To the Happy Hunting Ground with that bonehead Indian!" said Philip with fervor.

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The bonehead!"

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"If it wasn't for that bonehead Miller, I'd get on," he growls.

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"Bud Adams is a bonehead, then," says Dudley.

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"Them coroners deputies are mostly boneheads.

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And it's so comfortin' to me, strayin' lonesome into a Broadway movie show of a hot evening to know that "among the debutantes at a tea dance given in the Casino by Mrs. Percy Bonehead yesterday afternoon was Miss Verona Hemmingway."

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"Ah, you don't know our bonehead cops," says I.

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So I slides out and boards a Columbus Avenue surface car, and inside of twenty minutes I'm at Auntie's apartments, interviewin' Helma, her original bonehead maid.

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That was no bonehead play either, for if there's any one stretch in town where you can let out absolutely reckless and get a medal for it, that's the place.

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"Call your bunch back here, too," says I, "So there'll be no bonehead plays made."

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"That's the bonehead, sure enough," echoed Tom.

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"And listen, you Venusian bonehead!

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Come on, you yella-livered bonehead!"

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"Jiminy, fellows," he cried, "what boneheads we are!

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Boneheads we are!