Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Molly Pitcher killed in action ? (See POLITICAL NOTES. ) 10) What have buggies in common with bananas? (See Music.) 11) In the past six years, how many feet (on the average) have the levels of the Great Lakes dropped ? (See SCIENCE) . 12) After what U. S. Admiral would it be stupid to christen a safety razor? (See Music.) 13) What is the real reason the University of London has not been quick to accept the gift of the City of London? (See EDUCATION.) 14) Define an Alaskan "sour-dough." (See AERONAUTICS.) 15) The I. C. C. has set a certain "fair...
Almost any celebrity is glad to stand godparent to a child, a street, a monument, a steamship, a cocktail or a baseball bat. But there is a fitness to be observed in this business of name-lending. It would be very stupid for a manufacturer of safety-razors to name his product after Admiral Erberle; very rude of a mouthwash maker to call his deodorant "The Senator So & So" very short-sighted of a tire producer to christen his inner tubes for The Battleship Maine.* What adjective, then, can be applied to Louis and Isadore Cohen of New York City...
Last week some of those ex-passengers read in Liberty, a weekly magazine, the story they had been too stupid to put together for themselves...
...automobile. It struck Ruff while he was crossing the road, and after that the Airedale lay quite still and never again pawed with his leg or sniffed with his nose. Dick McDevitt did not understand what people meant when they said the dog was dead. Dead! A stupid word; but he repeated it to himself until it seemed to take on a meaning. His father † dug a hole in the ground, and asked Dick McDevitt if there was anything he wanted to say before they put Ruff in it, for it was the last time he would ever...
...precipitate serious riots. On the other hand the police of Lodi and Garfield do not oppose the strikers. On the contrary, they march alongside the parades and clear the traffic for them. There has been no violence or ill feeling in these latter towns. What a contrast to the stupid methods of Passaic and Clifton where reporters are assaulted, where strikers are sent to jail for thirty days for swearing, although the police wear no haloes, and where the chief of police should be arrested for assult and battery. There is an obvious lesson there for all peace officers...