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...times. Jeeter has one decrepit jalopy that explodes as often as the trick clowns' car in the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus. And when his son Dude (William Tracy) goes hog-wild with a brand-new Ford, the effect is of violent slapstick rather than of a moron's disregard for mechanical decency. As Jeeter's daughter Ellie May, Actress Gene Tierney had herself systematically dirtied every day. But, typically enough of Hollywood, the events leading up to the grime did not include giving Ellie May the hare lip she has in the stage play. Typically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 10, 1941 | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...tired of hearing of death and planned murder is stupid, Lord! let me be d-d stupid. If a man who feels that he does not know how to help mankind out of the cesspool it is now in, and admits it, is a moron, I admit of no defense. Once I deplored the stupidity of the ivory-tower artists; there I made a mistake. Ivory towers may fall and the occupants may be crushed, but who would not choose to be crushed rather than to swelter in a stinking cesspool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 20, 1941 | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...President Hutchins were present, I am sure he would be convinced that he was listening to a psychopathic moron...

Author: By United Press, | Title: BINGHAM HITS VIEWS OF HUTCHINS ON FOOTBALL | 3/29/1940 | See Source »

...they were built. There are four sisters of 65 and upwards, three of them with husbands of 67 or more, the fourth an old maid. Youth is represented by a mama's boy of 40 who has been keeping company for more than two lustrums with a fading moron of 39. To add to its handicaps, the play has scarcely a shred of plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Pure Hokum! . . . How can one (even an editor) "generalize" about America's million teachers? The range from top to bottom in the teaching profession runs the entire gamut of human ability from genius to moron (as it does in all professions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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