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...would not be seen dead with a British Communist." Snapped the London Daily Worker: "Lock her up." Cried U.S. Communist Earl Browder from a platform in Manhattan's Union Square: Open a second front now, for the United Nations' sake. Snapped the New York Times: "The silliest spectacle we have seen in a long time is that of American Communists . . . holding a mass meeting in Union Square to demand that the military strategy of the United Nations be changed to suit the party line . . . folly...
...Silliest kudos (awarded in 1939): Beaver College's "Doctorate of Fortitude and Faith" to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd; Newark University's "Doctorate of Canine Fidelity" to Bonzo, a Seeing...
...Silliest shot: Actor Beery galloping full speed on his charger over the bumpy Arizona countryside, towing Actor Barrymore in his wheel chair, so they can get to town in time to pay off the mortgage...
Still ahead of the Bruins were the annual Stanley Cup play-offs - one of the silliest competitions in all professional sport. Emblematic of the world's professional championship, the Stanley Cup is awarded, not to the winner of the National Hockey League's season schedule, but to the winner of a postseason, round-robin tourney between the league's top six teams. In other words, the regular season's play does nothing but eliminate one team (the seventh). Any team, even the lowest-ranking, stands to win the playoffs. But even the addicts wanted heavy odds...
Sirs: Of all the silly issues interjected into this campaign on both sides, the silliest is the question of Elliott Roosevelt's acceptance of a captaincy in the Maintenance Corps of the Air Service. Let's consider the facts: 1) Elliott Roosevelt is 30 years old. 2) He has a family-as a matter of fact, he has two families. 3) He has abandoned an interesting and profitable job for one that pays him $200 a month, and even in times of peace army life is no bed of roses. There was about as much chance...