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"Half-bakeds were not lacking. Under this family name, however, stood various genera described in that day's idiom, more often spoken than written—a speech not elegant, but grounded in truth and winged by fancy—as "sap-heads," "un-mit-i-ga-ted ahsses," "pinky-dinkies," "bone-heads," "pin-heads," "natural-born-durn fools," and so on. […] To trade on another's strength in achievement, to deplete another's vitality, and again to do deeds that made the stronger explode in a laughter darkening the eyelids with tears and as unquenchable as the immortals', seemed the role of Half-bakeds in the community drama."

"Wanted—by reputable Chicago internist and teacher, […] a young, competent, ethical, progressive, dependable Gentile roentgenographer or roentgen technician; […] no "floaters," "half-bakeds" or "bluffers" need answer, as advertiser is quite competent to judge quality of roentgen work done and fully informed regarding plate and film procedures and interpretation."

"Evan was one of those who are the despair of the reforming respectables, and the heroes of the adolescent half-bakeds. Evan had swaggered his way through school, never quite overstepping the line drawn by his long-suffering teachers, but knowing to a millimetre how close he could approach it."