Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rogue and a fool. I wondered at times whether I was reading a review of Henry Ward Beecher or Elmer Gantry. You put them in the same class. "Uncouth. . . buffoon. . . pastor of a flock of golden sheep . . . women fainted when he shouted and roared. . . met charges with a stupid sarcasm." I say I have not read Hibben's book, but if you have reviewed it fairly it must be the most unsympathetic and prejudiced study of a man in the whole realm of biography...
...press such as can scarcely be imagined in these days when even the finest flower of the clergy cannot presume to the importance which then belonged to Henry Ward Beecher. The parishioners of Plymouth Church supported their leader, who before a court met specific charges of adultery with a stupid sarcasm. Finally after 112 days of trial, Mr. Beecher's jury disagreed and he was allowed to go free. There was, however, little disagreement in the minds of the public. For the name of the greatest preacher since St. Paul was substituted the name of the greatest libertine since...
...Stupid Critics...
...character. Author Walker does his best graphic writing when he talks about Poles, Hunyaks, "bohunks" in general. Again and again he stops his story to look at them, trying always to fit the horror and immensity of their tasks into some scheme. Shaking light from the furnaces illuminates the stupid, pitiful anger of their faces. Author Walker describes "the look of the woman's eyes whose husband fell into a steel ladle and was melted down a year later- they didn't tell her, she found out afterwards - into an ingot...
...college man than it now receives. The manifold opportunities for the university graduate in one or the other of the branches of the Public Service are usually brushed aside in favor of some private enterprise. They should not be. The responsibilities of government now rest largely upon the stupid, the untrained, the men of ward mentality. Certain members of the present administration at Washington are eloquent testimony to this condition. Many men today graduate with a natural aptitude for the Public Service, only to lose it in a downtown office a few years later. These men in Germany...