Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hetty Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks. It seems to me you are all very stupid...
Professor John Madigan of St. Thomas' College (St. Paul, Minn.) is tired of marking stupid examination papers for his class in physics. Last week's batch was particularly exasperating. Some of the papers reminded him of dead fish and rotten eggs. When he handed the papers back to their authors, he did so in a new way. None of the papers was marked, but flunkers found theirs in a jar from which came the rotten-egg stench of hydrogen sulphide. The papers of even more hopeless dummies Professor Madigan had permeated with butyric acid, for a smell worse...
Manhattan Lawyer McKelvey, now 74, reviews the first 50 years of law reviews. [To the charge that law reviews are "stupid, dry, uninteresting . . . unleavened with humor," he answers: "Who would be likely to resort to a legal periodical for his humor? Certainly not a lawyer or judge. . . . The law review . . . [is] the vehicle of thought between legal scholars and the practitioners and judges...
...dislikes Mrs. Simpson" is the detective who was assigned to escort her on her flight to France. He rode in a speeding, zigzagging Buick for some 23 hours with the exasperated, nerve-racked American whose lover was about to abdicate, and who kept telling the detective he was a stupid Scotland Yard flatfoot, had not been smart enough to enable her to give reporters the slip...
...cinema version of Gone With The Wind which he will direct for Selznick International. "The girl I select," said he, "must be possessed of the devil and charged with electricity. . . I want some one new. What I want is a really young and attractive girl but she must be stupid, cruel and relentless." Hollywood three days later it was revealed that the role had been assigned to Miriam Hopkins...