Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stupid...
Wallace Beery alone is excepted from all this criticism. He was immense. His comically stupid face was never for one moment marred by the slightest ray of intelligence. His ample army pants were held up by a rope around the waist, giving to their lower portions a curious baggy appearance suggestive of small boys in grammar school. He was forever waddling about through the sets on mischief bent, for all the world like a fat sow hunting out choice bits of garbage Without him the picture would be a dud, with him it was able to make this reviewer disgrace...
...which they retail remarks that appeal to them as effeminate. Honest men stared, read under the headline an article which informed them that "Oh, Dear" was the actual name of the Prince's horse. These men had a curt criticism of the headline writer's awkward and flippant line. "Stupid," they said...
...sins of a small-minded, small-town father and mother visited upon children of inherited sensitivity, constitute no original motif. The stupid marriage and wry resignation of the son, the wary adventures in friendship and moderately happy marriage of the daughter, are not particularly gripping developments. The validity of such a story depends on the extent to which the author can invest mediocre personalities with, not alone human naturalness, but significant human naturalness. By that token, these Surrys are only soso; just small-town folks with no claims on reserved seats in the grandstand for famed literary characters. But Miss...
...playfulness that Henry Ford first turned the spot-light onto Mellie Dunham, onetime citizen of Norway, Maine. Nor did he to exploit the slight talents of an old man merely for the sake of kindness. In the clever way of great men, he is pulling the strings behind a stupid venture, quite as unpractical as his unfortunate Peace ship a few years back. He hopes, with Mr. Dunham's aid, to revolutionize the disgraceful state of modern dancing...