Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...triumphs were celebrated by a magnificent procession, and a riotous evening festival. In modern America, where olives do not abound except in jars, where the art of ode-making has degenerated since the time of Homer, where processions are a nuisance to traffic officers, and riotous festivals are rather stupid for lack of the means of making them genuinely riotous, it has been necessary to seek a new reward for unbeaten brawn...
...Damascus, "oldest inhabited city in the world," by order of General Maurice Sarrail, French High Commissioner in Syria. Impartial witnesses placed the human loss at 1,000 lives, the property damage at over $10,000,000. L'Echo de Paris cried, last week: "General Sarrail is a senile, stupid, brutal sadist ... a criminal ... a bloody tyrant!" Meanwhile the delicacy of M. Painleve's position was rendered acute by the fact that M. Herriot, leader of the Radical-Socialists,* declared a few months...
...Nathan Asch - Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). Some staccato words are ripped out. There is The Office: tape, shares, toil, sex, money. The office fails and you go home with the various people whose lives centre in it. A stenographer has to forget the junior partner and marry her boyfriend. The stupid figurehead of the firm trembles, tells his wife. Clerks curse, get other jobs. The junior partner brandishes his cane, plans to run away and be a heman; slinks to his father instead. The crooked partner plans another office. Author Asch seems to know his Wall Street and hate it thoroughly...
...players, Mr. Clive as the unfortunate Lovborg lived up to his excellent reputation. Miss Standing, as Hedda herself, we thought far better than usual but still lacking quite the poise to bring the house down or hold it spell-bound. Mr. Mowbray was Hedda's eccentric stupid husband. He played his part admirably...
...Republic, not because it lacks power, but because it is too young and afraid of itself. Well-equipped with all the raw material furnished by the scientific method, intelligence is nevertheless too cautions about thinking things to an end he says; hence there are wars, slums, crimes, stupid politics and still more stupid schemes of education...