Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crompton, England, a large stupid cow waddled into a candy shop. The man of the shop beat the cow, tugged its horns, pushed its hindquarters, fed the cow candy. At this the cow waddled into the narrow doorway and got stuck. The man of the shop poured whiskey into the cow's mouth. Then the cow mooed, wriggled out of the doorway and walked away...
...that they joked about them. . . . It is pointed out that the Spanish of the documents is faulty, that the Hearst forces changed the date of one dispatch three times in three consecutive editions, and that no officials of any government which disburses secret funds for corrupt purposes are so stupid as to commit anything to paper. . . . The facts are set forth here for purposes of historical record...
...Majesty & Her Majesty patriotically impersonated, last week, the roles of a stupid workman and workwoman trying to operate complex factory machinery on the good old British plan for "muddling through." Scene: the "Safety in Industry" room at the new Home Office Industrial Museum, London...
...stealing the picture from a police dog called Rex in the picture (real name Napoleon). Although at an important crisis he mistakes Mr. Barrymore for a wax dummy, this animal adds enormously to what would otherwise remain a not very startling reiteration of the Jekyll-Hyde theme complicated by stupid detectives...
What Assistant Professor Spencer could not put into his statistics is the fact that practically every preparatory school graduate, smart and stupid, enters college, while from the high schools go practically only the smart ones. The dull high school student becomes a clerk. The dull private school student may become a ne'er do well. But he usually has been through college, where he pulls his fellows' statistical average down...