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...future, the handsome Foreign Secretary reiterated his loyalty to the Tory Party. Bobbety, as a Cecil feeling no need to protest his Tory loyalty, bluntly told the House of Commons that Chamberlain's policy was "a surrender to blackmail." After Munich, and Chamberlain's fatuous promise of "peace with honor," Salisbury demanded ". . . Where is honor?" The right policy, he said, was "rearm, rearm and rearm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Bobbety | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...bitter disillusionment I am learning that Eisenhower is a fatuous Chamberlain who has perpetrated the greatest sellout since Munich . . . He has sold out South Korea and is proceeding to kick the venerable S. Rhee in the teeth because the Korean President has the patriotism to protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 6, 1953 | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...stood by, watching with idle curiosity, while a couple of freshmen fed an eight-year-old boy playing around their dormitory enough applejack and rye whisky to get him drunk. Editorialized the Dartmouth paper: "It is the job of every man on the campus to give battle to that fatuous stereotype of the hard-drinking, hard-fighting, hard-cursing Dartmouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Rites of Spring | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

Many stay-at-home editors thought that judged by their fatuous findings, all of the traveling editors had fallen on their faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Rover Boys in Moscow | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...city apartment. Richard Wattis, his face, in an interminable, self-satisfied pucker, also has a dual identity, keeping the two separate with a bit more verve than Redgrave. Joan Greenwood and Dorothy Tutin are the befuddled fiances of the two slightly dishonest gentlemen. Both are ridiculously prim and appropriately fatuous...

Author: By E. H. Harvey, | Title: The Importance of Being Earnest | 4/11/1953 | See Source »

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