Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HOMELY LILLA - Robert Herrick- Harcourt. Lilla is even more stupid than homely. As she grows up she gradually discovers that, despite her plainness, she has a considerable power over men. She marries an amiable school principal, is completely unhappy with him in a dull, acquiescing sort of way, and then leaves him. She finally finds a degree of happiness with another man. The book is a painstaking and outspoken examination of her problems...
...chose Dumas-fils' "La Dame Aux Camelias". IT was and interesting performance of a play that was once totally interesting. To the French mind we are a sentimental nation that has never yet outgrown this theatre story of a certain bad lady purified by her love for a certain stupid and cadish young man. For that reason the French company now in Boston has chosen "La Dame Aux Camelias" for three performances and billed "Le Misanthrope" for only two and "Le Demi-Monde" for only one. The Celimene and Suzanne d'Ange of Mlle, Sorel are her standard parts...
Intent as Cromwell, on governing if possible by constitutional form, he seems as impatient of stupid obstruction and as conscious of his unassailable position at the head of a government that "has its roots deep in the conscience of the people". Like Oliver too, he is a great believer in work, discipline, and the efficacy of the military. He intends to increase the armed forces for an internal and external reserve and to administer impartially for industrial settlement and domestic order. To foreign nations he will offer the option of giving Italy equal voice with her allies in international affairs...
...features of the Payne-Aldrich bill which passed in 1909, and which was so generally attacked and which contributed so much to the defeat of the Republicans in 1912 a Tariff bill unsound economically and many provisions of which are indefensible. Its passage seems to me to be a stupid political blunder...
There are also men who consider that politics in the United States is, far too low and sordid an occupation for men of their noble and refined characters. This attitude is stupid and cowardly; cowardly because if the conditions were as they imagine them to be it would be "The Right to Fight", and finally his latest work, "Everybody's World". These books deal with conditions in the Far and Near East and show also America's relation to the problems of the world...