Doddard

You are too old and too exacting to be satisfied with a blank page. You would certainly prefer one upon which life has written something. It is more interesting. Young girls are only for youths and for certain brainless doddards.

President Roosevelt and the former King Edward collect stamps, along with thousands of others, ranging from six-year-olds to ninety-seven year old^([sic]) doddards.

Nelly. There are some people who enjoy Sunday. / Renny. Yes . . . the old doddards who listen to military bands in the public park.

Comments John Garth, critic of the San Francisco Argonaut: “When the young student leaves art school and starts his career as a producing artist, his utter contempt for those moss-backed old doddards, the Old Masters, is complete and vocal. After ten years of the heat of the struggle, he stands silent before the Old Masters and removes his hat.”

Secondly, the members of the Oporto Junta were no better than inept doddards, none of whom possessed any personal prestige.

The doctor is interested only in getting the three old doddards out of their ruts, and that is accomplished not by Freud but by cops and robbers, romance, and sentimental complications out of Scribe and Pinero.

Pound challenged one poet to a duel because he was “stupid,” as he attacked the “elderly muttonheads” and the Victorian “doddards” much in the manner of Mencken, his friend, at home.

Publishers, he has been told, are literary brigands, lying in wait for talented but defenseless authors, ready to rob them of their ideas. Those who aren’t brigands are doddards who have no real taste or appreciation and don’t know a good thing then they see it and unless you know someone who knows someone who knows the publisher it is impossible even to get a reading of your manuscript.