And the manufacturers and importers and salesmen down on their knees, repenting in public, conical paper hats like dunce hats on their heads, SHAME printed on them in red.
Was he " an amiable dunce, " as the Democratic leader Clark Clifford called him, or a shrewd operator who knew how to have other people do what he wanted?
But Aristotle was out of all patience with the account I gave him of Scotus and Ramus, as I presented them to him; and he asked them, " whether the rest of the tribe were as great dunces as themselves" ?