Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just that during what promises to be a long run on Broadway. Bob Benchley will take it for a ride, and it will deserve all the ride it gets at the hands of that humorist. It takes itself as seriously as possible, and like the well-behaved, stupid child of rich parents that it is it will go a long...
...negative of himself then in existence in Japan. From this the photographer had been making prints of the Admiral which he sold at a high price. Togo, having purchased the negative, destroyed it, saying:. "I am shocked to find that people . . . spend money on the portrait of such a stupid person...
...Stupid Reducers. At the meeting of the American Dietetic Association in Atlantic City, Supervisor Emma F. Holloway of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, declared: "A tiny snack for luncheon, another snack for dinner is proving disastrous to the modern girl, who is so afraid of being overweight. . . . Men, too, are at fault with their customary coffee and pie for luncheon. They are reducing their vitality and making themselves liable to colds and pneumonia...
...more care to eat in quite such a heavy atmosphere. Whatever plans are made must include central locations, attractive buildings or rooms. Then, as has been seen, the University, though it hers at last raised the standards of the Freshman Halls tends toward a poor, often purely stupid system of dietetics. Instead of having a capable staff here at Harvard whose training and experience alike fit them for the function of superintending the University dining halls, there is at best a group of former or potential hotel managers and chefs, decidedly of the old school. There are certainly enough skilled...
...much noise has resounded in the press rooms from typewriters pregnant with messages concerning the morals and luck of morals in the American college and university. The final supposedly deft, handling of such stupid trifling with misunderstood ideas is the symposium, so fundamentally truthful, accomplished by multiple lists of questions sent about the country to various and sundry editors of college papers. The list which Liberty has sent included such valuable, succinct, and apt interrogations as these...