Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Precious. Complete and unassumed inanity is often the means whereby pretty women entice money out of old and stupid men. On this despondent theme, James Forbes (The Famous Mrs. Fair, The Show Shop) constructed this sometimes witty but usually laggard little farce, which was mistakenly provided by Rosalie Stewart, perhaps the most astute among Manhattan's female producers. "Precious" is the name of a girl, in some respects resembling the popular conception of Peaches Browning, who marries and mines a rich elderly man. At length, he grows tired of being the goat and palms "Precious" off on a young...
...another brother who is insane, or the boy Crown Prince Rahmatullah (TIME, Sept. 17) could have saved the dynasty of Durani. But Amanullah was not dead. Presently he came speeding by motor car into Kandahar, "Second City of the Realm," after encountering no opposition from the bandits who, stupid, seemed to think that when a king has abdicated he is going to stay abdicated...
...head of the Ferguson family was Mom Ferguson, a dowdy, cynical scold. Impelled by her stupid and melancholy faultfinding, her two daughters and son rebelled by getting married. Before they did so, one of the daughters stole dresses in the store where she worked and the son made love to a rural chit over his prize-winning plans for a bridge...
Notorious, of course, was the always stifling and often stupid Bratiano censorship of the Rumanian press...
...Situation. Businessmen in general are cagey about new ideas. Twenty-five years ago they squinted dubiously at advertising. Advertising men pugnaciously proved their utility. Now he is a stupid salesman who does not use advertising. To teach a similar lesson scientists are using similar utilitarian appeals. Rarely does a researcher give a talk without a lateral exposition on how useful to business his discovery can be made...