saphead in a sentence

In his will, the great portrayer of Sherlock Holmes asked the executors of his estate to exercise discrimination in disposing of the property so that everything he loved about it " would not fall into possession of some blithering saphead who had no conception of where he is or with what surrounded ."
In the first box are " The Saphead " ( Keaton's first feature ), " The Three Ages " ( a parody of D . W . Griffith's " Intolerance " ), " Our Hospitality " ( considered a masterpiece, with its Canfield-MacKay feud ) and " Sherlock Jr . " ( with Keaton as a projectionist who leaps into the action on the screen ).
Gillette had no children and, after he died, his will stated " I would consider it more than unfortunate for me should I find myself doomed, after death, to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind on this planet to discover that the stone walls and towers and fireplaces of my home founded at every point on the solid rock of Connecticut; that my railway line with its bridges, trestles, tunnels through solid rock, and stone culverts and underpasses, all built in every particular for permanence ( so far as there is such a thing ); that my locomotives and cars, constructed on the safest and most efficient mechanical principles; that these, and many other things of a like nature, should reveal themselves to me as in the possession of some blithering saphead who had no conception of where he is or with what surrounded ."

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