Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were the reporters, when they arrived, as stupid as Press-agent Strouse had fondly hoped? They were, with one exception, more stupid. Forgetting that the most obvious moment for such a publicity stunt was precisely the moment at which it had occurred, they sleepily made up their minds that no one who did not really want to drown would have chosen such a time for submergence. They discovered a photograph of a man, across which was scribbled an illegible endearment, in Mlle. Roseray's handbag; but no clue was offered when they perceived that the image was that...
...noise made by the dogs was loud and horrible. A small, stupid child, like many who attended the dog show, reached out a paw toward a vast belligerent St. Bernard who was lounging in his sawdust covered stall, swathed in a towel lest the slobber from his mouth should stain his sleek and tonsured fur. The St. Bernard lurched bellowing at the child; a collie barked at the St. Bernard; an Airedale yelped at the collie; soon, all the dogs were in a noisy fury. The people whose business it was to care for the dogs were never disconcerted; they...
...countries in a foment of patriotism be awakened to a mutual distrust, and immediately their circles of honor will widen. Clouds will gather over the mountains that were molehills: rumour will be bandiod about once more in the streets: and the papers will play the overture to another stupid tragedy...
...communicants have made few converts. No logic can move the man who says flatly that he will not elect for his president one who has kissed the Pope's ring, even, it may be supposed, if the one in question is the greatest governor New York ever had. The stupid assertions about drinking that have been made by drys who now oppose Smith, are incredible enough, but atatcks on Catholicism by religious enemies of the Governor, by the example of Mr. Hefflin, are now seen to present even greater possibilities...
...Story. It is an illogical but not totally unfortunate circumstance that, with the aid of beauty, the most stupid woman may successfully pretend to possess a civilized intelligence. Claire Ambler, though beautiful, was not entirely stupid; the ego-centripetal activity of her mind was doubly painful because of the artificiality it first produced and then criticized. But the men who buzzed around her, like bees around a blossom, did not understand this unhappy virtue; they were content to adore Claire Ambler, forgetting in their own egotism, to value hers...