Word: moronities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the Boise's telephone jut-jawed Captain Edward J. ("Mike") Moron spoke to the spotter in No. 1 position: "How many ships have you spotted...
...Burr, who reported her findings at The Woods Schools (for "exceptional" children), Langhorne, Pa., learned that it takes a moron (mental age eight to twelve) or an imbecile (mental age three to seven) at least two years to learn a machine operation that an average worker can learn in a few weeks. What alarms Dr. Burr is that one by one the jobs at which subnormal people are most successful-such as wrapping packages, egg candling, simple clerical work-have been taken over by machines...
...future of the moron is not completely dark. The war has temporarily created jobs for morons: they are filling in as errand boys and girls, waiters, elevator operators, nurses' aides. And when it comes to a choice between a well-adjusted moron and an unstable individual of normal intelligence, Dr. Burr would pick the moron every time. She underlines her point by citing the case of Jenny, 20, a girl of high-grade intelligence who announced one day that she had lost her job as nurse's aide in a maternity hospital. She was asked why. Said Jenny...
...always wins, no matter what happens. But his idolators (of all ages) seem satisfied to see him flex his muscles. This vicarious satisfaction has made Superman Paramount's most popular and profitable short, despite the $65,000 it costs to make each cartoon. So popular is the muscular moron that 114 female artists at the Famous studio recently answered a questionnaire asking whether they would prefer Superman for a husband or a boy friend. All said: boy friend. Explained one: "Trying to live with so super a husband might be awfully fatiguing...
This, the newest of all rackets, is so simple that a moron could work it. A station owner, patronized by an A-card holder known to him, sells ten gallons of gas and clips but one coupon. The extra seven gallons, if there is ever a question raised, can be explained away as a sale to a second customer holding an X-card. There is no means of checking the story, for the station owner is careful not to sell more over the limit to a stranger who might be an OPA investigator. Cheating of this type has been common...