Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faces. Yet they danced with tremendous enjoyment, at the end of the eleventh day. At the end of the twelfth, one team married, in a ceremony that was held on the dance floor. The colored preacher, the Rev. S. W. Wigfall, solemn and embarrassed, a good man if somewhat stupid, was grossly insulted by laughter throughout his reading of the service. Bernard Paul, aquiline, and Amelia Hallbach, spade-faced, were the participants in the wedding. The master of ceremonies, best man and judge of dancers was impudent Bill Robinson, "the finest tap-dancer in the world." He strutted and clowned...
...Cyclone Lover. One is compelled to suppose that the U. S. embodiment of the ideal lover is a gawky youth, timid and smirking, fond of stupid jokes and possessed with a dreary talent for unnecessary heroics. Herein he makes his too-customary stage appearance. Tongue-tied and blushing, he sees the daughter of a millionaire shipowner and goes infatuate. Then no longer is he a modest nonentity, almost incapable of thought or speech. Awkwardly demoniac instead, he kidnaps the girl of his lamentable dreams while she is in the act of marrying a rogue, takes her away upon a yacht...
Anent the regrettable misadventure of His Excellency Mahmoud Samy Pasha, Egyptian Minister to the U. S., at the Shenandoah Blossom Festival (TIME, May 14), without wishing to enter into the grammatical status of that "dark-complected" gentleman, may I not suggest that perhaps the "stupid race-blindness" of which you speak might have been displayed not by Mrs. Reynolds but by those warm persuaders of the Pasha who failed to realize that the Negro strain is as evident when promulgated through a line of princes and pashas as when through the humblest Senegambian dragged unwillingly into slavery, and that, unfortunately...
Dorian Gray. This is a peculiarly stupid dramatization of Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde's novel, about a youthful rake whose orgies cause a portrait of his pretty face to become more and more hideous. WTallis Clark was good as the Devil...
...existed in the House of Representatives since the census of 1920. At its best, the House is never a perfect mirror of the U. S. voters, but even this ascertainable error in the House would, in an average mirror, be enough to make wise men look stupid, proud men look fools, honest men look knaves. Most knavish of all look the members of the House who have prevented a reapportionment of popular representation in the U. S. since...