THE IDLE AMERICAN

My Uncle Mort sometimes has “bats in his belfry.”Fact is, he’s heard such second, third and fourth-hand opinions so many times that he’s begun research about these flying mammals.Now, he swells with pride when he hears the description, believing that he and bats are both grossly misunderstood….The expression--first appearing in a Newark, NJ, newspaper in 1900--sug...

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