Word: stupidest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-foreign movement rampant in China last week was very different. It burned low, and from the outside. Even the stupidest coolie knew that its sole purpose was to drive out white foreigners so that yellow foreigners could inherit the fat of the land. In each of last week's anti-foreign incidents the Japanese mailed fist was either bare or clenched within a Chinese glove...
...bitterest self-reproaches, occurring every few months, centre on his love of horse-racing. After winning ?4,000 at Newmarket he broods: "I herd with the vilest and stupidest and most degraded of beings. ..." After an evening with encyclopedic Thomas Babington Macaulay, Greville ranks himself with the worms, compares his mind to "a hurdy-gurdy in the Street" and Macaulay's to "the great Organ at Haarlem...
...does the author, as one reviewer has suggested, always "invent arguments for his opponents that not even the stupidest of them has used." The beauty of Arnold's book is that he quotes freely from Dorothy Thompson, Walter Lippmann, and Westbrook Pegler. Perhaps Arnold does pick the more stupid of their writings, but at a casual glance these excerpts seemed rather typical...
Guernica, Rightist planes attacking Bilbao under General Emilio Mola were German Heinkel and Junkers bombers, proven inferior to the Russian planes called chato (snub-nosed) by the Loyalists. On the advice of German aviators and with the approval of Generalissimo Franco, General Mola ordered the stupidest move of his entire military career: a punitive air raid on Guernica, 12 miles northeast of Bilbao...
...head and Hudson crowned with an admiral's hat riding home in a milk wagon early in the morning. Squeezed in behind them is an enthusiastic three piece orchestra and a crooner. This will either strike you as the funniest bit of farce in recent months or the stupidest. At any rate, it is extraordinary...