Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...banker and excessively conservative. And I have learned that I am no exception in anything; less than in others, in that 'youth grows old'. And I wish I could be a little more "liberal". So: let the undergraduate hear the most radical men to be found, (whether bright or stupid), and let them hear a reasonable number of bright conservatives. Then perhaps when they begin the inevitable swing to the Right they will attain a true liberalism,--a virtue rarely found anywhere at the moment...
Fitch. The nastiest remarks of the convention week were made by Albert Parker Fitch, famed preacher and ex-professor of Amherst. Dr. Fitch said that schoolboys and college boys were stupid. They swear, said he, and read immoral books and athleticize themselves and are remarkably bad. This speech received most of the press-comment. Said the press, in effect: "Once we listened to Dr. Fitch as the great Jeremiah of our age, but he begins to talk too loud. The louder he talks the less we listen...
...doors as their physical limitations would allow. . . . I have seen this House practically empty when the bells began to ring and then turned into a riotous sort of market place by the inrush of members for the purpose of finding the Government napping and turning it out on a stupid issue. I am not going to go out on any such issue...
...often described with any detail, but the exact atmosphere in which they moved is obvious everywhere in the book. It is an atmosphere unconsciously summed up by Sir Harry's explanation of his dislike for the Boers: "Their policy toward the natives was far more despotic and wilfully stupid than ours had ever been; their lack of interest in native languages, in intelligent natural history, exceeded ours." Sir Harry's is a taciturn account of that combination of exploitation, good government and scientific inquiry which solemnly carried the British flag around the world...
Painted People. Colleen Moore has collected for herself so much reputation that her managers, forgetting themselves entirely, let her loose with a surpassingly stupid scenario. It is probable that Miss Moore will know better next time. From the theatre pit she can see herself as others see her?striving desperately with impossible material, and by no means...