Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slightly outplayed by a Princeton team that was guilty of stupid penalties and unable to kick goals after touchdowns, Brown got better as it grew wearier and edged out the game...
...name to Lewis. Crossing the River Jordan he arrives, not in the land of milk and honey, but in a welter of May parties, prejudices, Mother's days, fishings, bathings-a whole satirically tinted landscape of Gentile normalities. Lonely, without angels, relatives or the Christ, Lewis quits this stupid paradise, flings himself into the river, returns to the Bread of Life. Author Nathan's mysticism is mischievous, grace ful-perhaps too much so to be taken seriously...
...very clever fraud that first brought international recognition to Gaston Bayle, a stupid fraud that caused his death. Five years ago one Emil Fradin, a shrewd peasant lad, dug up a number of curiously inscribed brick and clay tablets in a field at Glozel, France. Immediately the "Glozel Finds" attracted world wide attention. French archeologists announced that they were important relics of the Stone Age, wrote monographs. British and French illustrated weeklies printed elaborate facsimiles of the Glozel tablets, compared them in importance to Egypt's Rosetta Stone, Britain's Piltdown skull. Gaston Bayle was not impressed. With...
...becomes tongue-tied in class and paralyzed in examinations. Often enough, both are wrong. If the boy can be found some afternoon (when he should be studying) engaged in conversation with a neighborhood farmer, or chauffeur or shopkeeper, it may be observed that he is neither stupid nor reticent. In fact, he may be very wise about certain things, such as farms, or gasoline engines, or boats, and he can talk to you almost with eloquence about what makes the bees swarm, or what causes that sputter in your motor car, or how to shoot the sun with a sextant...
...Boston such stupid and unreasonable efforts to keep clean the public morals are unfortunately so, numerous that one folly more or less makes little difference, but the spectacle of a Bostonized United States is unpleasant and uninviting. It is by no means a wholly impossible outcome to the tendency which brought Prohibition to America...