Word: ignoramuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book, "On Understanding Science" is admirably concise and clear, and even a complete scientific ignoramus can come very close to understanding all the technical material it contains. This simplicity is the outstanding literary value of "On Understanding Science." Combined with the book's provocative argument, it makes the initial combination of Conant the educator with Conant the scientist a work of considerably wider popular interest than the majority...
Senator Taft had called Columnist Lippmann a virtual ignoramus for daring to suggest that the great U.S. Senatorial tradition is to permit a President to select his own Cabinet, and that Cabinet choices which have been turned down were merely the exceptions which proved the rule. Now Columnist Lippmann hit back...
Meticulously well-mannered in private life, William Bendix is probably the world's highest-paid professional ignoramus. As such he now rates star billing at his studio and makes more money than the President of the U.S. He owes his present prosperity an part to his failure as a grocer...
...Howard, who reached this profound conclusion last week, should know. For 40 years he has been offering the very same brand of knockabout comedy that is now devoted to the flow of Piel's beer on Manhattan's station WOR. As ignoramus-in-chief of radio's least erudite quiz show, It Pays To Be Ignorant (Mon., 7:30-8 p.m., E.W.T.), he is one of the most faithful toilers in the old vaudeville garden...
Congressional mail grew heavy and hot. Members began to dodge and weasel. Some talked back. Snapped Washington's Representative Martin F. Smith: "What object is there in making a Congressman look like an ignoramus and a crook?" Michigan's Representative Frank E. Hook hinted darkly that the Bundles for Congress movement was a Nazi plot. But most knew, with familiar dread, that this one issue might ruin them in their home district. A repeal movement grew...