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...invasion of their own soil by now is axiomatic. That America wants to help them by lending or giving money to them to save their own lives is also axiomatic today. That the Soviet Union would, because of this, declare war on the United States is about the silliest thought that I ever heard advanced in the fifty-eight years of my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Monstrous Lobby | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...Silliest kudos of the week was announced by Villanova College's President, Rev. E. V. Stanford, who awarded an honorary doctorate of laws for "humanitarian work" to Radio's Major Edward ("Amateur Hour") Bowes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Presidents' Week: Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...Connell, is "even more silly and more senseless than ever. . . . With our Blessed Lady, Mary, the Mother of Christ, ever before their eyes as the model of Christian womanhood, how is it . . . that [Catholic women] venture to enter even the portals of the temple of God clothed in the silliest raiment of those who are dedicated to the temple of shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Follies is devoted to the spinnings and whirlings of a troupe of professional skaters, photographed from all angles. The other half is devoted to a dull narrative in which James Stewart and Joan Crawford, as a pair of professional skaters (who never skate), achieve fame in the movies. Silliest sequence: Stewart's heroic farewell to his skating partner (Lew Ayres) when their act breaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

That contemptible, outrageous article on Groton School, TIME, July 25, is the silliest thing I have ever heard of. There is hardly a word of truth in that hideous article. How can you print such trash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1938 | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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