Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stupid Democracies. No small feather in the Führer's bonnet this year was the attendance of virtually the entire Berlin diplomatic corps for a 48-hour flying visit to the Party Congress-hitherto boycotted by democratic diplomats. Noticeable absentees last week, however, were the Papal Nuncio, the Soviet Ambassador. Conspicuous among the foreign envoys were sad-eyed Prentiss Bailey Gilbert, U. S. Charge d'Affaires (who attended over the vehement protest of his chief, vacationing Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd), who is expected soon to resign, Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson, British Ambassador, and Andr...
...organization, Armour's abattoir, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and the Clinic may be compared. But it is illogical and stupid to infer that cutting off a hoof in process of butchering is comparable to surgical amputation. And it is altogether incorrect to imply that a specialist has so limited a field as does a meat packer and finds his work no more stimulating and broadening than grading beef. After all, the Clinic has dealt with human beings. Did you say nearly 1,000,000 of them...
...Almost perfect mechanically. How stupid of me to forget. Now it all comes back. Harvard, of course. I used to teach there. Well, what's the Crimson...
...devil's own nuisance." The next thing Ivan remembered was his mother killing his father with an ax. And after that he was made page boy to a nobleman, because he fidgeted shyly when the nobleman's daughter Nina kissed him, he remembered her saying: "You stupid little page boy, if your eyes weren't so blue I should ask my father to kill you and cook your flesh in a pot and give it to the dogs . . . and God will punish you and you will burn in hell forever . . . so take that [kissing him fiercely...
...received) $10,000 for a solenodon. Shortly after the trip to New York the male died, but a few weeks after her arrival the female gave birth, surprising the entire staff of the zoo. The baby died in two weeks. The mother still lives, is completely tame, completely stupid, and follows people around like a puppy. She is fed on raw beef and freshly killed pigeons, but will eat practically anything if given the opportunity...