Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...designates as the middle class businessman-husband; the man whose unimportance at the office is in inverse ratio to his assumption of authority at home; the stupid oaf who reads the newspaper aloud to his family ; the man whose conversation is largely confined...
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...curious to note how much Mr. Meiklejohn is able to convey by his wording. His inaugural address is a rhetorical model, a perfect illustration of the use of topic sentence and so forth; and to a certain extent an illustration of how stupid the sue of mechanical rules alone can be. The baccalaureate sermon, on the other hand, is replete with dignity and yet grace; while the prophecy of the next hundred years is filled with almost poetic fire. Almost all through the book, except in the inaugural address, there is a lilt to the words that is akin...
General Adolfo de la Huerta then made a cutting rejoinder to his accusers: "I am not surprised by the declarations of General Alvaro Obregon nor the report of the stupid and unjust Alberto J. Pani. It is well known that they only waited until I was accepted as a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, nominated by the Mexican people, to pretend to stain my name. There is more yet. Treacherously and cowardly they have threatened to take my life. What less than that, they start with trying to take away my honor, which I always tried to keep...
...last decade has given to the Western World, said Miss Comstock, a bitter revelation of the cloudiness, incompetence and ineptitude of the human mind. The theme of her address was that folk are not as bad as they are stupid. Her solution? More education...